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...appreciate "the blessings they enjoy in this democratic land," Mrs. Fisher decided, by following the example of her small Vermont neighbors. So she wrote to educators in 48 States proposing that school children contribute their pennies to a fund for child victims of war in China, Poland, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Norway...
...others: Austria's Edgar Prochnik, Czecho-Slovakia's Vladimir Hurban, Poland's Count Jerzy Potocki, Albania's Faik Konitza...
...neutrality proclamation was still unmade. For four days Mr. Roosevelt also withheld the statement. When he did speak last week, he did not name Germany. His words were for-the-record echoes of all that a U. S. President could say and had already said for Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Finland. ("If civilization is to survive, the rights of the smaller nations . . . must be respected by their more powerful neighbors"). The complacent Nazis considered his statement harmless enough to print in Copenhagen. To the U. S. people, President Roosevelt sounded like a bystander who is tired of talking...
Foreigners put their heads together, decided to out-Japanese the Japanese. First they drummed out every eligible U. S., British, French, White Russian, Austrian-Jewish and Czecho-Slovakian citizen to vote with them. The number looked meagre. So the Westerners decided that if the Japanese could use puppets, so could they. They pooled large real-estate holdings and split them among hundreds of dummy "owners." When voting day came, the dummies flocked to the polls. Result: a Council comprised of five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, and two very angry Japanese...
Outstanding ersatz tire rubber is Germany's Buna, which now shoes virtually all the Reich's motorcars and trucks, won combat spurs on cavalry cars and artillery prime movers in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland...