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...years.* Little magazines translated snatches of anything Gidean they could get hold of. Dozens of university students announced that Gide would be the subject of their Ph.D. theses. In Manhattan's left-wing New Leader, Novelist Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon, TIME, May 26, 1941) deplored a similar outbreak of "French Flu" in England, denounced Gide's "esoteric arrogance [and] arrogant spiritualism...
Released from prison at World War II's outbreak, he was captured by the Germans in June 1940, was at once repatriated. Then he became active in Pétain's Legion of War Veterans, organized a special shock corps called SOL (Service d'Ordre de la Légion...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
...undeniable fact that the fighting spirit of the enemy people is decisively high compared to what it was at the outbreak of the war. . . . However, the U.S. also has many weak points. . . . The first weak point, I say, is the democratic system. . . . We hear of the emphasis placed on 'freedom of speech,' which is the golden rule of the democratic nation, but public opinion lacks unity. Worse than this, often the people publicly state their disagreements with the strategy concerning the prosecution...
This mounting chorus of concern over wartime moral conditions in Britain was swelled last week by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. In a stern joint statement they said: "Since the outbreak of the war there has been a large increase in venereal disease [120%], both among the civilian population and ... in the forces. This brings ruin and unhappiness to thousands of homes and has become a grave danger to the health of the nation...