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...divulged in open court, would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
...here & there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
...shipment of 8,000 tons of grain which the Allies plan to send to their stricken ally is just a token. In Greece, as elsewhere in Occupied Europe, no one can be sure that relief supplies will not be grabbed by the Axis. Explained Mr. Dalton bitterly: "There is no guarantee, nor would we pay any attention to one given by the Germans. We are in this case running a risk in view of the appalling conditions caused by the Germans in Greece...
Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
When Disney quit his stricken plant, his fiscal worries, and sailed for South America last summer ("At that point I would have gone to China to get away from it all"), Dumbo, though nearly finished, was no ray of light on his horizon...