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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sir Samuel flew to La Corufia with a stern warning for fat Franco. The time had come, Sir Samuel said, for the Caudillo to abandon his pro-Axis nonbelligerency, begin to think and act like a neutral. Sir Samuel added that the U.S. had full knowledge of his visit and message. In Franco's villa at Pazo de Leiras, outside La Corufia, Sir Samuel listed Britain's demands...
Fires leaped 150 ft. in the air. But the crew refused to abandon her. Standing on scorching decks, they tossed explosives overboard. They cursed Jap bombers but blessed their bad aim. For five days they worked 20 and 22-hour shifts before the fire was under control. All but 300 tons of cargo was saved. "Best crew I ever had," said the executive officer. "They were licked at least five times and didn't know...
...Justice moved my great Maker; Divine Power made me, and supreme Wisdom and primal Love. . . . All hope abandon, ye who enter here...
There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...
Half a million men surged all week over rainswept fields around Orel. This week the Berlin radio spoke guardedly of fighting "in the southwestern part of the town." If true, this meant the Russians were finally forcing them to abandon their easternmost strong point in the central front. To their own people, the Germans glibly explained the dogged Russian advance in terms of the Wehrmacht's policy of "elastic defense...