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...high with sorrows that they overflowed. The scene of the poem might be Paris, with its boulevards and iron-shuttered windows; it might be Berlin or Budapest or Shanghai (the fact happens to be that I wrote it after reading Malraux's novel, Man's Fate, about the Shanghai rebellion of 1927). There are some American details, but the scene was not meant to be and could not have been the United States. Thank God, there hasn't been a revolution here, or the sacrifice of millions of lives. No blood has flowed at home, only printer...
...soon as possible and I do believe that it is our duty to move inland so that we may relieve the Army the burden of keeping watch over us when it must concentrate its full power on guarding the important coast. This is a fight to finish and our fate is in the balance. Then we should not be in a way of the Army when it needs every ounce of manpower to prevent more break-through of the enemy on far distant front lines, and we, as loyal citizens of this country, can better serve the nation by working...
Ledniciki's fate in escaping the Nazis was fortunate, for sixty of his colleagues at Cracow were arrested and sent to a concentration camp at Orianenburg, where eighteen of the group perished. The profesor estimates that 80,000 Poles have been killed in a campaign which is aimed at what he calls "total extermination of the Polish nationality...
...getting around it," thought the Vagabond morosely. "It's a horrible prospect." Vag was sitting idly in the Widener Reading Room, where he occasionally came to sleep off a hangover. "I suppose in the long run it'll do me good, but it's still a terrible fate to have to contemplate," he cogitated as he pulled out his pipe, lit up, and disregarding the scandalized stares of the surrounding inmates, took in a long drag of the sweet-tasting smoke...
...Vast storehouses of food were left untouched for the Japanese. Sampans, boats, barges, and even steamers were undamaged. At Penang the British military authorities ordered the evacuation without consulting the Government. They refused to evacuate anyone except Europeans. All Chinese, Malays and Indians were left to their fate. That was the beginning of considerable difficulties with the natives in Malaya...