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With it, the N.E.I. Army and Navy grew. When Hein ter Poorten took command last October he had around 100,000 soldiers. Motorization was speeding along. Artillery, another Ter Poorten specialty, was heavily increased. For defense against the inevitable attack, oil wells were mined. Around airfields and open spaces were...
> Billeted in Scotland since the fall of France have been some 20,000 Poles who fought first in the Polish Army, then in the French, and now have their own units in the British Army. Learning English, the Poles have taught their hosts enough Polish so that in pubs near...
> Heretofore Scottish wooing has tended to be matter-of-fact, not to say brusque. The Poles, past masters of the soulful gaze and the kissing of hands, have given lassies an entirely new perspective on courtship. Even Scottish lads, spurred on by this high-voltage romantic competition, admit: "We'...
Everybody knows about the fighting forces of the Dutch East Indies. Some people know about the Netherlands Brigade which--together with millions of Britons and thousands of Canadians, French, Poles, Czechs, Belgins and Norwegians--protect the shores of England against invasion. Only few people have heard about the thousands of...
Violinist Hubermann was the first musician of renown to refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent...