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The high command of the U.S. Army faced with foreboding the vital but unpleasant job of overhauling its officer list. Its particular problem last week was: how to persuade the U.S. press not to arouse public emotion over officers relieved of commands.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: The Ax Falls | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Increasing Axis pressure is making the Pope much more truly "the Prisoner of the Vatican" than his predecessors were from 1870 to 1929. The Vatican radio and the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano are now on an almost exclusive diet of non-controversial items. If Hitler wins, Pius XII may face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Imprisoned.Ye Visited Me | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

One: that he is a great fellow and a great sailorman. The other: that he is a no-good, ring-tailed son-of-the-bilge. Some of his colleagues take a bit of both judgments, granting that he would probably be at least as unpleasant to an enemy in war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Stormy Man, Stormy Weather | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

In any case, materiel was still hopping across Syria, and the French in Syria showed signs of being hopping mad. Some were angry at the British for bombing Syrian airports. General Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: With Roosevelt in Iraq | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Relieved of their chores, chaplains besides writing sermons and holding services will have as their principal jobs trying to make friends with the men of their regiments, trying to lead them in wholesome amusements, visiting them when they are sick, helping to get them out of jail, writing to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Onward Christian Soldiers | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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