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Despite obstacles and the difficulties of getting supplies, Jones affirmed that the work of feeding the famine-stricken children of Europe would be carried on to the greatest extent possible with the limited supplies at hand and that after the end of the war there would be an even greater role to play in the rehabilitation of Europe...
...tactful, well-bred," crepe-hung women sent by the solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which...
...Geneva Convention of 1929, belligerents are required to return home seriously wounded prisoners, regardless of man-for-man exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed 66 stricken British soldiers, 63 medical personnel captured in Greece; to Italy went 250 sick and wounded Italians captured in Ethiopia and East Africa...
...fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them and for all the people of the world a happier, saner and more peaceful future...
...grief-stricken wife who has just killed her husband and are weeping buckets, hold that pose & hurry over to the Hillman Publications who will...