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Rommel forces defeated by Brit 8th Army and Le Clerc troops, Ksar Rhilane; French advance on heels of Ger retreat; Mareth Line seen imperiled; RAF activity described; von Arnim seen trying to capture Djebel Abiod pass; El Aouina and La Marsa airfields raided; Itals rept Allied armored thrusts repulsed; rept Palermo raid; assert US forces massed on Spanish Moroccan border
House passes bill; Repr Wolcott amendments on treatment of salary levels and other amendments killed; Roosevelt rebuff seen; speculation on Sen action
Accompanies Foreign Sec Eden to US
US State Dept gets unconfirmed rept of mental breakdown
1943Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (born 1898)[â ]
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937.
1943The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in KrakĂłw.[â ]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and CheĆmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.