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Before the fall of France the N.E.I. were no more cognizant of the Nazis' might than any other land on the hither side of the Rhine. When the Indies woke up they woke up with a bang and got to work immediately without any ifs, ands or buts. Their alarm clock was Hubertus J. van Mook, Director of the Department of Economic Affairs. In the summer of 1940 the U.S. woke up to the fact that available stocks of tin and rubber would not last a full normal year. Mr. van Mook had the tin and rubber...
...keeping our chins up; as a matter of fact, my experience has not made me any more nervous of raids. In fact, we go upstairs to bed and hear very little of the raids during the night, although one or two bombs woke me last night, but I soon went to sleep again...
Last week Comrade Stalin gave his countrymen the explanation he had owed them since that Sunday morning when Russians woke up to learn that Germany had invaded their country. It was his job to explain why he had promoted the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, which enabled Adolf Hitler to pick off his enemies by ones and twos until he was free to tackle Russia. Taking to the microphone, with a big pitcher of tea at his elbow, Comrade Stalin saluted his fellow comrades in patriarchal tones...
...told him to come look. Spivey talked with his Lord and asked Him to save him. He told the Lord that he was going to tell the truth; suddenly he was no longer scared or worried, and lay back on his bunk and slept. About dark the boys woke him. He looked through the bars at the scene swimming in the hot Southern twilight, a string of 100 cars drawn up before the jail, 700 white men circulating under the trees. Strong in his faith, he lay down again and slept. It was 10:15 when...
...loth Medical Regiment, night-foundered, weary, was glad indeed to hear the order to bivouac. One unit in particular got its pup tents up in jigtime. It had found a nice level space in the heavy woods. They turned in, slept like logs. Screeching brakes of an unlighted ambulance woke them. They had camped in the middle of a road...