Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result: actual or near starvation for millions. Said the British last week: "Belgium and the other occupied countries will have to make up their shortages from Germany. . . ." Said a German broadcaster: "Who in the world ever expected a victor to provide his enemies or former enemies with food? I ask...
Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly did not intend to ask the British to let the U. S. feed Hitler's victims, unless U. S. public opinion forced such a step. Neither did the U. S. Red Cross, which up to last week had distributed about $8,000,000 to stricken Europe, hardly knew what to do with the balance of a $20,000,000 relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give...
This left Shanghai in the hands of some 1,200 U. S. Marines, a negligible French garrison and an overwhelmingly superior Japanese force. Shanghai's senior foreign officer became Rear Admiral Moriji Takeda, who could presumably ask for and take over the "defense" of the International Settlement. Since the U. S. could not and would not assume responsibility for fighting off the Japanese alone, Shanghai's International Settlement last week was as good as surrendered. Shanghailanders knew that they had lost their queer hybrid foreign city, not quite 100 years...
...until they are well out of Cherbourg does Jerome realize what his uncle is up to: the cargo, valued at 1,200,000 francs, is fake; the ship, just insured for 300,000 francs, will be sunk; the seven piteous, hastily recruited members of the crew, who might ask embarrassing questions, will be locked in and drowned; Jerome and Romain and an agent ashore will split the proceeds. There isn't much Jerome can do about it. He has signed all the papers; if the Rose docks at Constantsa with its cargo of "machinery" he faces a long jail...
Said the mayor last week: "I declare myself peremptorily against national registration. It is unequivocally a measure of conscription. . . . Parliament according to my belief has no mandate to vote conscription. ... I ask the population not to conform, knowing full well what I am doing presently and to what I expose myself...