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...Goebbels hirelings and Nazi youth leaders. Occasionally Soviet organization has not been equal to its task, as when the collapse of Russian Army discipline in the moment of victory resulted in a vast, hideous carnival of raping and looting. But the long objective, of transforming Germany into a decisive westward extension of the Soviet system, has never been changed for an instant...
James Clark McReynolds, late retired Supreme Court Justice, was buried in Elkton, Ky., as his will meticulously directed-"westward of the family monument, head near the center, feet away from it." Among the gruff octogenarian bachelor's bequests: $10,000 to a woman acquaintance, $10,000 to a friend's daughter, $10,000 to Centre College of Danville, Ky., to "promote instruction of girls in domestic affairs...
...Berlin Bureau, summed up one result of 13 months of occupation: "In spite of the well-planned, well-executed maneuvers of Germany's powerful Communist Party, in spite of the vacillations and muddiness of Anglo-American policy, the people of Germany and Central Europe are looking westward, not eastward, for their future...
...Luckily the Japanese did not see them. On the second night there was a storm, and the biggest canoe, which had three natives in it, was blown away and they never saw it again. The winds were bad and they could not get to Tarawa. Instead they were blown westward toward the Solomon Islands...
From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: "Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in ... the Library of Congress. . . . Representative Americans . . . have gathered to consider with you the great crossroads to which the splitting of the atom has brought mankind. ... I think it will be of great importance. . . ." Thus Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy last week introduced one of radio's greatest public-service programs...