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...German conquerors of France had anticipated an upsurge of national feeling on Armistice Day and had destroyed all monuments commemorating French victories on the old World War I battlefields of Alsace and Lorraine. Left standing in lonely vigil were the stone sentries erected by Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Still a Funny Race | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...climb out through the attic light, slide down the slates onto a flat part of the roof and begin the vigil. Most of the household are in the basement by now, but they will bring up some refreshment in an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS DESCRIBES LIFE AS SCOTTISH AID RAID SPOTTER | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria and Romano, mere schoolchildren-were too young for this vigil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: CASUALTIES: Bruno's Last Flight | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Dressed in the traditional garb of John Harvard, Barnes and Klaw will march on the "Eternal Vigil" of the American Peace Mobilization group. By joining this picket line that continually winds about the white House, they hope to show the President their determination that the United States should no participate in the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSU-Sends Delegates To Peace Picket Line | 5/27/1941 | See Source »

...railway car, resting on a siding under the shadow of a Balkan mountain on whose crest anti-aircraft units kept constant vigil, was set as usual for Adolf Hitler's morning conference with his advisers. Assembled in the car were all the biggest of the bigs: Göoring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Himmler, Hess (see cut). They were gathered together to congratulate Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: Happy Birthday | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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