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...eyes of even the most stupid Germans, these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...
...must be hard for you folks at home to conceive how our troops at the front actually live. . . . Some . . . have not slept in a bed for months. . . . They never take off their clothes at night, except their shoes. They don't get a bath oftener than once a month. . . . Nobody keeps track of the days or weeks. . . . You see men sleeping anywhere, any time...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
From then on things went from bad to worse for the Navy. The Luftwaffe's dive-bombers went to work on Malta; A.B.C. ordered: "These pests must be swept from the sky." Greece fell, then Crete, and when A.B.C. was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, he said: "I would rather they had given me three squadrons of Hurricanes." His losses off Crete were terrible: at the end of May 1941 there was not a single undamaged British cruiser or battleship in the whole...
Died. Sarah Grand, 88, pioneer British suffragette, six times Mayor of Bath, popular novelist (The Heavenly Twins); in Bath, England...