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...Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...
...Germans showed a film of the Russian campaign to a picked audience of Rexists and Flemish nationalists. A warehouse filled with machines and cereals mysteriously burned. For acts of sabotage in Brussels, Liége and Mons 100 men were to be deported. "Do not forget," said a Belgian who escaped to London, "that people who are obsessed with the threat of famine and disease are scarcely in condition to fight against a perfectly organized army and police force...
...fascinating speaker from the standpoint of general interest will be Donald R. MacAfee, due to lecture on sabotage on November 3. Present at the German breakthrough in Belgium in 1940, he punctuates his his talks with graphic descriptions of the flight into northern France of hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees...
Down the hump, in Brazilian towns they learned to be careful about approaching Brazilian women, whose men are touchy. They were puzzled by the bidets in hotel bathrooms. Opposite the hump at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, the doughboys impressed the natives with the "magnificence" of their equipment, and immediately set to work building a big camp named for President Roosevelt. Up the air transport route, in Egypt, they learned to watch for bulges in the costumes of native "wog" workers; sometimes found parts of vehicles. But fezzed natives were learning to fry a hamburger, and Yanks were furnishing the instructions...
Africa's contribution in raw materials and manpower to the United Nations cannot be in proportion to its size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...