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These were brave words. Curtin knew that not they alone, nor Australia alone, could win a war. Australia, he said, looked to the U.S., "to you who are sweating in workshops to turn out the vital munitions of war." Australia also looked to the U.S. "for counsel and advice." That was why, Curtin explained, his country (with "no belittling of the old country") had insisted that the Pacific War Council should be in Washington. It was "a matter of some regret, after 95 days of Japan's staggering advance south, ever south," that Australia had not yet obtained "firsthand...
Alone in her Scottish home last winter, grey-haired Lady MacRobert went on with her hobby of geology, went on watching the course of the war. It disturbed her that all the Allied counterblows were handicapped by shortage of aircraft. Like most Britons, she admired Russia's brave fight, believed that the next few months might decide the future of Europe...
Joachim Gottschalk had often played Hamlet at Berlin's Deutsches Theater. Last October the Nazi Party demanded that he divorce his Jewish wife. Joachim Gottschalk decided to flee the oppressor's wrong, to brave the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Joachim Gottschalk, his Jewish wife and their young child died by their own hands...
...achieving an effect of straight talk and brave appraisal, the best news programs have probably surpassed the best newspapers since the war started. In taking a proper view of "news" created by the enemy, they certainly have. CBS, proud of its news staff, has especially recognized and used the advantages that a quarter hour on the air has over an eight-column front page in the matter of keeping emphasis where it belongs. Boldest comment yet ventured by a newscaster on the press's sense of proportion was made by CBS's Elmer Davis, apropos the Carole Lombard...
From the sorry history of World War I's Alien Property Custodians, he is a brave man who would touch the job in this war with a ten-foot pole. Between 1917 and 1934 (when the office was incorporated into the Justice Department) there were six custodians. Three were accused in the courts and in Congress of shocking dishonesties; one (Thomas Woodnutt Miller, President Harding's friend) went to jail...