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He visited Canadian servicemen in camps and hospitals. He praised 1,200 Canadian troops in Westminster Cathedral for their "heroic courage." Of Britain, which he had not seen since war began, the Cardinal said: "One has to see with one's own eyes to believe and to measure the...
"There's something horrible in the world," said Spinster Margaret to her bosom friend, Spinster Emily, as they sat together in their snug, rich home in the suburb of Wedgewood. "It's these dreadful new ideas. They want to destroy everyone who has a little something, a little...
"I was there on the second day of the storm. . . . The rain was coming down in sheets. The men were marching from their muddy and water-filled slit trenches, mess kits in hand and leaning into the wind, in their quest for some hot food. The wind was reaching a...
Not until late afternoon of D-day were some of the beaches secured. All night, while the naval guns boomed in the roadstead and explosions flashed along the embattled coast, the drenched wounded lay in the sand, some whimpering in delirium. Then the invasion rolled on-beyond the dreadful jetsam...
The trouble is that imprisonment goes on too long, "breeds a dreadful staleness" while "an exclusively male community seems to lack emotional drive and spontaneity." Prisoners are always hungry: there is never enough to eat, although light diet makes for fitness, up to a point. Red Cross parcels are lifesavers...