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...young Russian officer who has evidently led some especially brave and gallant maneuver against the enemy (just what and where the censor deletes) is brought to the camp hospital behind the lines. Because of the seriousness of his physical disorder Natasha takes charge of him herself, and he promptly reciprocates by falling in love with her. This can't be, for Natasha has given her heart to her fiance at the front and the hospitalized officer realizes this when Natasha volunteers for duty at the front upon word of the supposed death of her fiance in action. Here some...
...despair, brave Norwegians! Your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader, but from the filthy quislings who are his tools...
...When in danger, the ladybug lies on its back at the enemy's mercy. It cannot be blamed because nature gave it no horns or sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...
...Russians are a brave people with very bad table manners. . . . General MacArthur's Army didn't quit, isn't quitting, won't quit-and no son-of-a-bitch is going to label him a coward and go uncalled for it. ... We have been in awe of the Russians' fortitude in ordering the earth scorched as they fell back, and we frankly said so. But . . . Manila is not Philadelphia...
...Under Secretary Bob Patterson, after he did an undercover study and report on reorganization of Army-Navy supply staffs last fall. Ferd Eberstadt, 51, earned his Wall Street medals when he recovered from a pre-crash partnership in the old Otis & Co., went into business for himself. A brave man with a shrewd sense of the times rare in the nostalgic Wall Street of the thirties, he specialized in "little blue chips" (Square D, Monarch Machine Tool, Cleveland Graphite Bronze, Victor Chemical), while the rest of the underwriting fraternity still clung to the dwindling lists of 'more "respectable...