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...prospect, awful to Britons, that they may have to beg the U.S. for another loan is suddenly looming black and real. For months the possibility has been progressing from a vague foreboding to concrete worry, and lately to specific debate among a few burdened men in and near the British Cabinet. But until very lately it has been something for the future-a distant trouble obscured by present troubles. This week, subtly but unmistakably, the atmosphere changed. Britons, official and unofficial, who had resisted the idea, accepted it as something inevitable; in popular discussion the question became...
...letter is to beg you to help us. I think that you can collect some money enough to buy with it a lodging...
Three Came Home doesn't try to tap tear ducts or beg reader sympathy. Mrs. Keith's story is full of suffering but singularly free of resentment. In a prefatory note that reads like a considered epilogue she rises above personal bitterness: "The Japanese in this book are as war made them, not as God did, and the same is true of the rest of us. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you spiritually...
...will go for men in the armed services, for veterans and their families. The post at Narsarssuak Fjord is only one of the 281 clubs, canteens and clubmobiles still maintained by 2,800 Red Cross workers overseas. The Red Cross would like to reduce the total, but military commanders beg them to stay: the self-reliant, battle-hardened G.l.s are gone, and in their place are bewildered youngsters in need of a stabilizing, familiar refuge. To suit the youngsters, the whole recreational program has been changed. Said one director:-"We have had to plan entertainment as we would for children...
...close to Roosevelt, says Mclntire, ever thought of him as a cripple. His stupendous vitality and cheerfulness drowned out the clicking of his duralumin braces, overshadowed the wheelchair itself. (No one was more delighted than the President when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek so far forgot his condition as to beg him not to get up and see her to the door.) Mclntire believes that, but for the strain of the war years, which made it impossible for the President to follow his schedule of exercises, he might eventually have recovered full use of his legs...