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...from air-conquered Pantelleria and Lampedusa, saw in them auguries of what could be done to specific targets in Sicily and southern Italy. On Pantelleria, an entire military establishment had been destroyed. Artillery, anti-aircraft positions and coastal batteries had been silenced. The island had not been able to withstand this demolition, coupled with the effective blockade by aircraft and the Royal Navy...
...Study. There is no "typical" British pub, but the pub is typical of Britain. The socially snobbish do not frequent pubs. The rich drink at home or in their clubs. But not the little people - the ones who angrily withstand blitzes, who keep the mills running, the crops harvested, the ships sailing, Britain going...
...Linlithgow, the victor, went Britain's praise for being the first Viceroy to withstand the pressure of a Gandhi fast without budging an inch. It was considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...
Proposals to isolate 10,000 men for the sole study of liberal arts as leaders of the post-war world Conant condemned as impracticable. No man would long be able to withstand the moral pressure, nor could parents actually favor such a course for their sons. Moreover, he pointed out, such men would have little chance to "lead the world" when they had not felt any of the actual hardships of warfare themselves...
...official German correspondent broadcast from the Don front: "When I first saw the endless Soviet columns, preceded by the heaviest tanks, an ice-cold hand seemed to grasp my heart. 'Almighty God, give us the strength to withstand this flood,' I prayed." The Nazis' official party journal, Völkischer Beobachter, informed its readers that "the last and highest decisions were at stake...