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Baruch can be powerfully simple and direct, but he is a person of extraordinary sophistication, a master of charmingly indirect talk which suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
George's flight was by steamer, from the crowded, bomb-tangled port of Peirae-us. As he left, he released his heroic, echoing formula: ". . . hard destinies of war . . . lawful Government . . . continue the fight . . . resistance to the end. . . ." Then, by night, the steamer picked its way to Suda Bay, Crete, and King George, his brother and his Ministers proceeded to Candia, where the monarch called the first Cabinet meeting of Free Greece...
...nature of the bombs was naturally not divulged, but their effect was something to see. In a raid over Hamburg, a pilot who dropped one said: "After it burst I could see a great circle of red, and on the rim of it, quite a distance from the center, I saw buildings going up into the air. Although I have been on 31 raids, I have never seen anything to match the effect of this bomb." Another described what he saw when a new bomb dropped as "a huge heaving mass like a volcano in eruption, which rose and settled...
...Bomb fires raged furiously in Belfast. To the rescue fire engines were driven with wide open throttles 100 miles from Dublin in neutral Eire. Last week Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera made it plain that where wartime suffering is concerned, neutral Eire stands by warring Northern Ireland. "They are our own people," he said, "and their sorrows in the present instance are our sorrows...
...Between bomb blasts, through the blackout, Berliners stumbled to their cinemas last week to get a Nazi-eye view of what the unspeakable British have been up to all these years. With noisy and immense satisfaction they saw beefy, aging Emil Jannings play Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, South Africa's famed Boer statesman, in Tobis Film's production Ohm Krüger. This Nazi rewrite of the Boer War for home consumption is pure propaganda-reminiscent of The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, and other thrillers tossed off during World War I to raise...