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...Exile in London, had publicly taken sides with Serb Nationalist Mihailovich. Oldtime Serb nationalists, who hold most of the posts in the Government in Exile, tend to attack the non-Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified command...
Said Churchill: Without compulsory service, India has raised an army of 1,000,000 volunteers. (The facts: in poverty-stricken India "volunteers" are easy to get with Army pay at $5 a month and plenty to eat assured; new volunteers have been nicknamed "rice soldiers...
...March 1941 she married Dr. Thomas King, ruddy, boyish Miami osteopath. Three months later, while rehearsing Die Walküre in Mexico City, she was stricken by paralysis. To Minneapolis she went for treatment by famed Australian Nurse Elizabeth Kenny, began taking exercises on which she spends almost four hours daily. She also improved the time by perfecting the role of Isolde in the original German, which she had previously sung only in French...
...Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe out of the waves...
...cases where the pain had subsided, the Minneapolis workers showed Arkansas doctors how to exercise the children's stricken muscles. Several times a day they flexed them through a limited range of motion. No massage was used. By the time the first, contagious stage of the disease is over, this treatment should relieve all pain and stiffness...