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Minister Campbell was nowhere near Cattaro. He had rented two busses in Belgrade, filled them with his staff and with those of the Greek, Belgian and Polish legations, and set out, followed by three trucks loaded with luggage and documents. Instead of going to Cattaro, the motorcade proceeded to Gruz, the port for Dubrovnik, 65 miles up the coast. It was waiting on the dock for the submarine to appear when the Italian Army entered the town. Last week the British had a tale to tell about the daring of the Regent, but the Italians had the Minister...
...President could thus add 39 Danish ships to the U.S.-British merchant marine; later he could commandeer some 20 or 30 Belgian, Netherlands, Rumanian and French ships, including the 83,423-ton Normandie, now quietly rusting at her 48th Street pier in Manhattan...
Another distinguished Lowlander was Lucien Brouha, Belgian Physiologist who arrived on the same boat as the Duke and Duchess. Lately he has been living-on-a-gallop between the Fatigue Laboratory and Washington, where his knowledge of the scientific aspects of feeding Europe has been as welcome as milk to a kitten...
...Conquered. Economist Brandt believes that Germans use food to control civilians in German-occupied Europe as they do at home, but that the weapon does not work so efficiently because the machinery is new. To lure skilled workmen to German factories, rations in Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian, French manufacturing centres are cut, increased in German towns. The amount of food that reaches the public is determined, not by the supply, but according to Nazi strategy. The British blockade, he believes, can not halt the Nazi war machine. He concludes that food will not win the war. "The Nazi machine will...
...recent surveys show that the food situation in the occupied democracies is far worse than the British statement would seem to indicate. The Belgian ration is already down to 960 calories or less than half necessary to maintain life. Supplies to maintain even that will be exhausted this month. Reports show many children already so weak that they cannot attend school...