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...square miles of a nation which Adolf Hitler imagined he had conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit trying to dislodge Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich from the cold mountains southwest of Belgrade and had retired to that city to await warmer weather. General Mihailovich was issuing passports for "Unoccupied Serbia," which he also called "an island of freedom...
...Winter clothing must be light as well as warm. Best combination for cold weather: cotton and wool arranged in layers. The cotton breaks the wind; the wool insulates, absorbs perspiration. The Russians, who know their winter steppes, wear warmer and lighter clothes than the Germans...
...Tobruk seven months, talked with some of the Germans. They said they had been surprised by the attack. Most of them had come to Africa in July; now they felt the night cold, like their comrades in Russia, and many of them had taken to Italian uniforms which were warmer than their own. One thumped himself on the chest and shouted in English: "I am a German officer." Most of the officers proudly heiled Hitler...
...blackest day in U.S. airline history came with a great mass of cold air from the Arctic. It thrust a freezing finger as far south as the Texas panhandle, rested its chilly knuckles on the Great Lakes, spumed in ice, rain and mist where its skin touched warmer...
...Young children grow faster mentally in the cool fall and winter months than in the warmer seasons...