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...alone Witnesses claim 1,000,000 followers, are prepared to proselyte in Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bohemian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek. Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lettish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Yiddish, as well as English. All told they seek souls in 36 nations, in 88 languages...
...Lord Lothian drove to the State Department he passed the Czech Legation, where sad-looking Minister Vladimir Hurban still lives. Next door to it the old Austrian Legation was gone, its Minister now a Georgetown University professor and his wife the local representative of a dress company. The Danish Legation, which moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government in Copenhagen. Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki rides in the day coach, has part of his staff live at the Embassy to save rent. The Norwegian Minister still lunches weekly with the Ministers...
...ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant named William S. Knudsen...
...Denmark's tall Christian X, chastened by two months of Nazi occupation, received Danish bigwigs on Constitution Day, adjured them to stand fast through days of duress...
...understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent, and her month-old twins; a weeping woman who had to leave her Norse husband and two children; oilmen from Russia, the Balkans, Arabia; swarming European-Americans in third class who gabbled in Italian, Norwegian, Danish; enough black-tied plutocrats, equally scared, to inspire Captain George V. Richardson to dub his cargo "refugees in dinner coats"; seminarians from the North American (Catholic) College in Rome, relaxing in sport clothes as bright as Joseph's raiment. Also bound westward (from Ireland) was the refugee-laden President...