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...V-E day! On that day I delivered from this pulpit a prayer of thanksgiving for the victory of the hour, begging peace with justice . . . The peace that came was not God's peace; and because in the ensuing postwar years men's hearts have not been won back to God, I must this day-as a protest against the crucifixion of humanity-entreat your prayers for persecuted, tortured, victimized Cardinal Mindszenty...
...Army's first winter maneuvers in Europe since V-E day had shown some pretty sloppy intelligence work. Lieut. General Clarence Huebner told his troops a little story to point the moral, and thereby added another footnote to the history of World...
...denounced the New Dealers as "social fascists." Then came the United Front : everybody who was against Hitler was a Progressive. Next, the Stalin-Hitler axis, which touched off the war. The war was an Imperialist War until Russia got in; then it was a People's War. After V-E day the Western nations were no longer allies of Russia, but suddenly became parts of what Stalin calls the Imperialist Front...
...Prime Minister," Churchill rumbled, "where are the rifles which, on V-E day, armed 4,600,000 troops and Home Guards of this country alone? Are they in oil? ... There is no difficulty in keeping rifles. They do not go sour, like milk . . . What has happened to those latest models of tanks...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...