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Toronto's moderately Conservative Saturday Night, summed up Mr. Bracken's position: "His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten. If they can only be kept quiet there is a possibility that the question of whether Canada should enter into a sort of consultative alliance with other nations of the Commonwealth may be considered in an atmosphere of reason, free from the exaggerations of an electoral campaign...
...Squeeze. Prices have skyrocketed because of blockade, crop failures, hoarding by merchants, officials and speculators. International relief agencies maintain 75 stations in the stricken area, but must pay prohibitive prices for what food they have...
...with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father's death...
...Menthon's voice broke; he fell to the floor. Stricken by a heart attack, he was carried from the room. No sound, no gesture came from the assembly; in silence it adjourned...
Noumea, the capital, was rundown, poverty-stricken. The banana-shaped, 250-mile-long island, defended by an ill-armed garrison and ancient cannon, would have dropped like a ripe banana into the hands of the Japs. So the French welcomed U.S. forces, at first. But U.S. forces soon outnumbered the colonists and, with the vanishing of a Jap invasion threat, irritations between the two populations cropped...