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...average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied France, as stormy weather swept over the stricken cities, 2,000,000 children seemed doomed to malnutrition and the preventable diseases that go with it. Herbert Hoover, with contacts with most relief agencies, estimated that 18,000,000 people in Finland, Poland, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands would be without food before the winter was over...
Admiral Leahy drove toward the silent town, through war-stricken countries where life was at a low ebb. He had left the cruiser Tuscaloosa at Barcelona, had driven through the mountains to Le Perthus, where only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended...
...afternoon last week in Washington, tremulous, treble voices poured into a midget microphone and around the world. Forty-one children of foreign diplomats, attending a Christmas party in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, joined in the annual broadcast. A few of these diplo-moppets were panic-stricken, but most stepped up with little prompting and rattled off their Christmas pieces, twice-once in their native tongue, once in English...
...there were few signs of the disease on the eastern seaboard. Only large city stricken was Montreal, Quebec, where many factories and business houses were closed or on part time...
...Several days before their football game with Notre Dame, 16 varsity members of the University of Southern California team came down with flu. Also stricken were Head Coach Howard Jones and the team's doctor, Delos Packard Thurber. The Trojans lost...