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...look out of my window I see the flag half-masted over the President, but the grief of the Londoners is much less articulate. When I arrived at the office I heard two charwomen discussing Roosevelt's passing-two women who have, like some of us, endured the blitz, the flying bombs, the rockets in London. 'Blimey!' says one, 'Ain't it a bleeding shime? I'll bet ole Winnie an' Joe'll miss 'im.' 'Do you remember those destroyers he gave us?' says the other. Two poor...
...when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
General Omar N. Bradley, home from the wars, was greeted by his wife at New York's LaGuardia Field, got in a blitz-quick kiss before photographers caught a more formal reunion...
...Paris and Titian's Christ and Mary Magdalene. These and 47 other choice paintings were the first of the National Gallery's treasures to be returned to London from the 300-ft.-deep mountain caves near Blaenau Festiniog, Wales, where they had been stored since the blitz. What with shortages of transport, return of the entire collection will take about three months...
...ironies of war, the National Gallery passed through the frightful destruction of the blitz and robomb years with only one gallery (No. 26) damaged. Far harder hit were the British Museum, whose Greek and Roman rooms were destroyed by incendiaries in 1941, and the Tate Gallery, which will not reopen for six months...