Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slavs Next? The Yugoslavs were just as sure they were marked for early Nazification. It took three days last week for a great German force to move through Dresden, reputedly on the way to take up positions in the Reich's Slovak Protectorate from which to invade Hungary or Rumania. Other German forces massed to threaten Yugoslavia, and in the big hotels of Vienna anyone who dropped into conversation with a German officer was confidently assured, "We don't know at just what moment but we are going to march...
...story: Four years ago, at Wahnsien, on the rushing Yangtze River, he called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...