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...commission investigating European food conditions had come up from hungry Italy. But not even Italy's plight was as dire as that of Poland. "This is the worst situation we have seen so far," he said to the world. "The Polish people are digging themselves out of the greatest political, intellectual and moral destruc tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London...
...Slavery." As an undoubted authority, Stalin linked Churchill with dictatorship. The war, he rumbled, had not been fought "for the sake of exchanging the lordship of Hitler for the lordship of Churchill. He conjured up a dire future for those who (like himself) could not speak English: Churchill, with his "racial theory" that "only nations speaking the English language are . . . called upon to decide the destinies of the entire world" (a very free Russian interpretation of Churchill), was as bad as Hitler with his theories of German supremacy. ". . . Nations not speaking English," Stalin discovered, "make up an enormous majority...
...latent support to Britain's most controversial colonial issue! On Nov. 23, an American in uniform was killed by rioting mobs in Calcutta. This tragedy is but a sample of the news that may be forthcoming from that unhappy country if we believe even a portion of the dire prediction of TIME'S London Bureau editors [TIME...
Mused Hess in his Nürnberg cell: "The decision . . . was without doubt the hardest I ever made. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualized the endless rows of children's coffins in both Germany and England, with mothers in dire distress following behind, and similar rows of mothers killed by bombs, with crying children following. I assume many people will interpret this as misplaced sentimentalism...
Rules for War. As boss of A.T.C.'s Africa-Middle East Wing he scoffed at dire warnings that planes could not fly 1) through Africa's dreaded dust storms, 2) at night. He did both, stringing radio beacons across thousands of miles of darkest Africa. Result: operating efficiency shot up over 300%- and the accident rate went down. Then he was handed a bigger job : running the lifeline to China over the Hump. There, as in Africa, the big reason for not flying was "weather." So Hardin drafted a curt order: "Effective immediately, there will be no more...