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These voices of defiance struck sympathetic chords in millions of French hearts. Hitler called the trial off hurriedly. But it was too late. France had awakened, not to collaborate but to resist...
...reports showed that the stubborn Japs had organized everything which they thought necessary to retake Guadalcanal once & for all. They formed a powerful bombardment task force, including battleships, which was to come in with the most terrifying kind of attack, night shelling, and pound the will to resist out of the U.S. beachhead. Then convoys of transports with over 20,000 troops and with all essential weapons, such as tanks and heavy artillery, were to effect landings. Then, perhaps with the help of carrier-based air attacks, the entire force was to do its final job. That was what...
...January 1940 Jean Hélion, 38, left the U.S., his American wife and infant son. Says Artist Hélion: "I could not resist going back to fight the Nazis...
...hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade. Some are well-known concert artists who expect to recoup in nationwide tours the money they lose in Manhattan. Some just want the thrill of performing in the nation's biggest musical center...
Maintaing its traditional status as a cultural and social organization, the Cercle Franceis yesterday declared that it gives its support to "the true France, Fighting France, which includes the French people who resist in France and the volunteers who side by side with the other United Nations, fight against the Nazis in foreign fields...