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...surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which the U.S. had just taken over-Winnie Churchill might guess but only his hated foe could know...
...German advance would go was anybody's guess. The complete lack of resistance suggested that General Sir Archibald Wavell had stripped the area of all but a skeleton force, and sent most of the others to Greece where he expected more decisive action. He had taken a gamble of the kind good generals have to take...
Civilians. In 1940, 61,000 people in the U.S. died of t.b. Exactly how many U.S. citizens are tuberculous, no one knows. Conservative guess: 750,000. Dr. Lewis Israel Miller, medical chairman of the large Jewish Consumptive Relief Society in Denver, predicted last week that the rate may go up. Reasons: 1) the U.S. suffered a widespread influenza epidemic this winter, and flu may pave the way for t.b.; 2) some members of the younger generation have not been exposed to t.b., have consequently not developed immunity...
...guess as to the secret of his success is that he actually doesn't sing very much better than you or I, the only difference being a pleasantly mellow voice and the fact that he knows the words to the tunes. For whenever I hear him on a record, I can't help thinking of a sort of easygoing bum walking down a side street, leisurely kicking at stones in the road, occasionally running a stick along a picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like...
...Best guess: the British had heard that atavistic instincts had again got the best of many an Ethiop patriot. So Haile Selassie was asked to try to stop it. For if the conquest of Ethiopia were accompanied by numerous atrocities, victory would turn into a moral defeat...