The extraordinarily brilliant seizure of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls came as great good news to Americans, brooding ever since Tarawa over the high casualties there.
But there was no exultant wave of optimism. The people were taking victories as they took defeat, soberly and doggedly. And the news from Europe was a hard checkrein on enthusiasm—the compressed beachhead below Rome, the slow inch-by-inch bitterness of Cassino.
With these things in mind, as a background to all discussion, all plans and hopes, the citizens plugged steadily away at the business of living, in...
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