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September 12, 1943

"Reich Forces Occupy Rome.... Fuehrer Says Reich will Defend Vatican" — but who will defend the Reich?

Commentator is sore because we announced our casualties in North Africa at 27,000, whereas it was 140,000 to 200,000, he says.

Millions of American families are vainly waiting for the anticipated 'happy reunion' with some 400,000 husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and lovers who have died in their lonely posts in foreign jungles, deserts and mountains.