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...contribution from German Air Marshal Erhard Milch last week: ?25 (in U. S. dollars) sent to his captured flier son-in-law, Hauptmann Joachim Heinrich Schlich-ting. Hauptmann Schlichting probably got his money's worth in British goods, but the Government kept the dollars. What made the British happier still was the chance to advertise that Air Marshal Milch had a son-in-law in a British prison and U. S. dollars in the bank...
...stopped to say good-by to our old friend, the proprietor of the large cafe in the Place Marceau. We expected to find him rather sad at our departure; but no-he was all smiles: "You will be coming back before long," he said, "and to a happier France! For I have just heard good news. I have just heard a German soldier grumbling: 'Du lieber Gott, I greatly fear that Roosevelt has been re-elected!' There is a high moral authority in question, you see, which (thank God!) is not powerless against our enemies. . . ." And we observed...
...Franklin Jr., Henry and Bob Morgenthau [brothers of Joan] decided that a party always left happier memory if it came to an end when everybody was still having a good time, so at 3 o'clock the orchestra played Good Night, Ladies. No one paid any attention, and finally Sidney and his orchestra played The Star-Spangled Banner, so that everyone had to stop dancing and join the singing. That ended . . . [the] evening...
...Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
...each day the camp-members are faced with the reality of their own accomplishments. They see what they have made; they know what they have learned. They feel an identification with democracy and a share in the national life. They are acquiring skills to fit them for the happier bejobbed days that are to come, and they are conserving the resources and improving the "plant" of their country in the meanwhile. They are participating in citizenship...