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...country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
Thien Pe is a young Burmese author who had no love for the British when they controlled his country, less for the Japs after they took Burma from the British. He remained in Burma for two months after its conquest by Japan, then escaped via India to Chungking. There he wrote a book, What Happened in Burma, and it was published last week in India...
...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...
...John Reed Society is sponsoring an open forum tonight which will feature a number of talks by members of the College who were living in France before the German conquest of 1940. The will speak on the possibilities of an undercurrent movement in France today...
Throughout the world 7,000,000 refugees wandered blindly. In Poland in the first months of German conquest the conquered were killed at the rate of 10,000 a month, 300 a day, 14 an hour. In Leningrad alone hundreds of thousands have died of starvation and disease. In Athens a hundred thousand more-one in every seven -have starved to death...