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¶Filipinos who once worked for the U.S. Army & Navy were lashed to telephone poles along the boulevards. Hatless under the blazing sun of the tropics, they were held for three days at a time, kicked and cuffed by passing Japanese soldiers. After a while (if "guilty") they were shot...
¶In Poland, where starvation was oldest, grotesquely emaciated bodies, like half-clothed skeletons, were picked up off the streets and carted away in heaps (see cut, p. 34). In two and a half years some 120,000 Poles have been hanged or shot.
Advocating a future world government, Professor Pay said that the foundations of this government have already been laid in the agreements between the Poles and Czechs, and the Greeks and the Jugoslavs, which foreshadow unified military commands, single currencies, free movement between the countries, and common foreign policies.
Production-the job of getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president...
The British War Office released some information last week which had given it an acute case of the shakes. Recently two members of the British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded...