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...days of old it was customary to rename the principal cities of conquered territory. This served the twofold purpose of bolstering the ego of the victors and reminding the vanquished...
Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
Laden with assorted cameras, the Signal Corps G.I.s of the 165th this week were again pressing close to the front, ducking fire with the infantry. As usual, their twofold mission was: 1) to bring back news pictures of U.S. troops in action; 2) to record as many battle details as possible for the War Department archives. Like scores of similar companies on other battlefronts, they had had a high proportion of casualties (seven dead, 14 wounded, three captured out of 62).* But their work had paid off by helping to make the battles of World War II the best understood...
...source of Mott's success in spreading the Y around the world is twofold: 1) an indefatigable energy that has taken him 2,000,000 miles in 80 countries (he toured Latin America five times in one two-year period); 2) an organizing ability that enabled him to whip up other men's enthusiasm, made them give their time and money (he has raised $300,000,000 for his causes...
Allied air objectives were still twofold: to smash up German war power (especially aircraft industry) on the ground; to bleed the Luftwaffe white in grinding air combat. Allied airmen still hoped the pace would burn out the Luftwaffe by summer...