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Patriots and Puppets. European leaders in exile speedily followed with messages to their countrymen. Premiers Pieter S. Gerbrandy of The Netherlands and Hubert Pierlot of Belgium told their people of the opening of invasion, and called on them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
...weeks the enemy inched closer to Loyang. But every day from the city's radio station a calm Chinese voice spoke of the firm will to resist. Men built barricades, fought behind them as the Japs drove into the 2,700-year-old city...
...Vocation. In 1909 Klein, hearing the adventures of a museum associate, could no longer resist Africa. He returned only twice, most recently in 1927 to marry his childhood sweetheart and take her back to the jungle...
...over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...
...bear no exact relation to the needs of the workers. Some who might quickly find new jobs would get more than they needed, while others would get less." He recognized that there is certain to be unemployment during reconversion, and noted: "Neither industry nor Government will be able to resist the demand for dismissal pay unless a better alternative is offered...