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Rumania. Passing through the twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...
...range of every caliber, too low to bail out; at 2,000 feet "you drain the cannonade of a whole army." Nursing, from a memory of childhood, "the sense of sovereign protection," he was all but persuaded that each of his enemies, caught in some lassitude of the spring twilight or weariness of war, was going to pass him along...
...twilight the plane reached Las Vegas, took off again at 7:07 p.m. for the last lap. At the controls was 12,000-hour veteran Pilot Wayne C. Williams...
...French Canadians. In World War II Meighen has sat in the quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana da is a unit of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...regarded with almost religious veneration by his fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...