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...professors and Dorothy Thompson. Two great questions are at issue: 1) Does Steinbeck put too much faith in the moral superiority of democracy? 2) Is Steinbeck wrong in portraying German soldiers as human beings? It has even been suggested that The Moon is veiled Nazi propaganda. In Manhattan the Belgian Commissioner of Information objected to Colonel Lanser, one of Steinbeck's Germans who recalls how, in World War I, an old Belgian woman killed twelve Germans with a long black hatpin. Said the Commissioner: "Mr. Steinbeck ... does a disservice to the Belgian reputation for dignity and fair play...
...helping to construct a 50-kilowatt short-wave station at Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. Another powerful transmitter is to be erected five miles away at Léopoldville, Belgian Congo. Neither will be in operation until next year...
...Nazis thought that grey, 61-year-old George Deckers knew something about the Belgian underground movement. Maybe he did, but George Deckers was not saying. They marched him off, backed him against a wall. A firing squad took aim. But the squad lowered its rifles and George Deckers was marched back to his cell for further questioning. Still he was silent. Again he was marched to the wall. Again the squad did not fire, and George Deckers was returned to his cell for grilling...
During 18 months the Nazis did this to George Deckers ten times. The Belgian underground magazine La Libre Belgique, which told his story, said that his hair grew whiter and his mind began to fail...
...training problems, the setting up of a Combined Committee on Air Training in North America (in Washington), and a start on standardization of training methods. According to this nice theory, in the future a Chinese navigator might take over in a U.S. plane piloted by a Canadian with a Belgian gunner and a Greek bombardier...