Word: vis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another lieutenant appears. Now only flashlights light our blacked-in room, and in their dimness the new arrival looks completely grey. He is all dust, from helmet to boots. He commands the troop's light tanks, which have been up against the Germans' heavier Mark IVs and VIs since the column left the beach. The only break in the tank commander's greyness is a red gash in his right index finger. He inspects the gash and says he got it buttoning up his tank. He tells his story briefly, tiredly, carefully...
Nazi airmen last week bombed the Adriatic island of Vis (Lissa), which, according to their home radio, is "an operations base for 1,500 American Rangers and British Commandos." That there might be some truth in this enemy assertion was suggested when the Allies reported that specially trained U.S. and British combat troops-along with gunnery experts and engineers-are now operating with the Partisans in the Dalmatian coastal zone. Furthermore it was announced that the Allied troops had raided Solta Island, destroying Nazi installations, capturing 111 prisoners...
Canny R.S. likes the look of the future; vis-à-vis huge Alcoa, he thinks he has a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition. Reynolds will come out of the war with 160,000,000 pounds of ingot capacity, and with almost twice that much fabricating capacity. Much larger Alcoa will have about as much ingot as fabricating capacity. If aluminum demand should nose-dive as much as 50%, R.S. thinks he can keep his primary plants running full tilt, while Alcoa would have to cut ingot production and finished products in half...
...Pass. Artillery, infantry and 50 German tanks moved out of a point north of the pass (see map). South around Maknassy the Germans rolled toward the road that connects Sidi bou Zid with Gafsa. Another column pounded toward Gafsa itself. Mark IVs and some of the new, giant Mark VIs overran the positions of green. U.S. artillerymen, who sometimes scarcely had time to fire one round...
...other two divisions of the book are equally challenging. In the first part the author provides a competent and interesting survey of French cultural and political history vis-a-vis Germany. Only in the final section is there a consideration of France in her relations with the remainder of the continent. Professor Guerard's analysis here is clear and thorough, but the suggestion of a Pan-Europa based on regional divisions with cultural autonomy but political dependence upon the whole cannot be called thoroughly realistic. There are in Europe so many nationalistic egos that it will certainly be difficult...