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...Crooked Cross. This, at the bottom, is a war of the spirit. Hitler has tried to kill this spirit and substitute for it some ersatz thing, something which is really its negation. He has trampled underfoot the great faith which has nourished the West. He has trampled on the Cross and substituted for it a crooked cross-a fit symbol for the new devil worship which he has tried to impose on his country and the world...
...month ago the storks passed south over Berlin. Last week the violet skies of Avignon were grey and winter rains shuddered over the cobblestones of Paris. Ice edged out from the banks of canals in Holland, and in the Dolomites snow crunched underfoot. Ukranian peasants used to say: "nash didus ide," meaning that winter, a bundled-up old grandfather, had come to visit. They did not say that this year. All Europe feared the fourth winter of World War II. It would be known as the year of organized hunger...
...program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
...first boat back landed 14 drenched, shuddering, shaken men, some of whom dropped to their knees to pray (in Spanish) when they felt the wharf's solid planking underfoot. Blankets hastily pulled from village beds an hour before were wrapped around them. "Ambulances" carried them to the hotel, where they were welcomed by canteen workers with hot soup, and by 35 home nurses, a contingent of registered nurses, and four male air-raid wardens drafted as orderlies. There were dry clothes and warm beds in private rooms...
...coped with the packing and unpacking as the family moved to shore or mountain, who cooked over campfires, swatted mosquitoes in screenless cabins, pitched tents or staked down trailers-have a new set of problems this year. How to amuse the family in its own back yard? Families are underfoot again as they have not been since the Model T disrupted American home life...