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...more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times. When the British forces evacuated the island in 1941, many remained behind, unable to get away; the invaders shot hundreds of Cretans in a vain attempt to find their hiding places. When illegal pamphlets are distributed or a newspaper slips up and prints favorable Allied news, more are shot. It has been going on now for two years. "But." George says, "we're a patient lot. We can go on for a while longer...
...blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could not win the air supremacy they needed...
When inflation comes, hell gripe as loud as the rest of us. Then Congress will look to him in vain for a kindly word...
...race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...
...fought dishonesty, injustice, oppression and selfishness. Above all, he taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. War is only a means to an end. . . . This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within one's own nation, must be the Christian goal...