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...winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied France, as stormy weather swept over the stricken cities, 2,000,000 children seemed doomed to malnutrition and the preventable diseases that go with it. Herbert Hoover, with contacts with most relief agencies, estimated that 18,000,000 people in Finland, Poland, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands would be without food before the winter was over...
...facts and conditions of U. S. aid were less important than its shift from worried apathy into tentative action. For weeks Herbert Hoover, urging aid specifically for the small nations of Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, has been preaching that U. S. ingenuity can somehow find a way to feed Hitler's victims in conquered countries without aiding Adolf Hitler...
Axis difficulties produced a new crop of rumors which swept uneasy Europe, miserable in the grip of bitter cold and with fuel and food scanty in many regions. Included were reports that the Axis was preparing for a possible British invasion of Italy, that Finland was making peace overtures to Russia and that Germany was rushing the assembly of small submarines at Bulgarian ports for a Black Sea campaign, possibly to include invasion of Turkey...
...waters as they did in 1938 when Man of the Year Hitler conquered without fighting in Austria and at Munich, as they did in 1939 when Man of the Year Stalin got half of Poland by a shrewd deal and a free hand to work his will on Finland. But 1940 did not fall like a plum into the lap of the Dictators. One of them, Benito Mussolini, thinking conquest was easy, proved the year's greatest flop. Another, Joseph Stalin, lost several teeth before he chewed off an edge of tough little Finland. A third, Adolf Hitler...
After Stalin's Purge, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Russia's grab of half of Poland, 1940 betrayed the full nature of Stalin's hand with the attack on Finland, the seizure of part of Rumania, and all of the Baltic States. Fellow travelers began to jump off the train. Promptly Comrade V. J. Jerome the Party's Führer for the U. S. Intellectuals, wrote a pamphlet (Intellectuals and the War) tearing his old friends to pieces. Jerome said his erstwhile friends were just capitalist stooges anyway. They "came like arrogant slummers . . . looked upon...