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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of Germans have always washed themselves with laundry soap-toilet soap in the Reich can now be sold only for the use of babies and physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
Since the day Germany invaded Poland the word Asse ("Axis") has not appeared in the Italian press. The "plutodemocracies," meaning France and Britain (and sometimes the U. S.), which all summer long were the object of Fascist journalistic abuse, now get more or less fair press treatment. The Italian public has been reminded very seldom, if at all, that it was diabolical Britain which pushed sanctions against Italy four years ago and the once vociferous Italian claims on French-owned Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy, Nice and Djibouti have not been discussed out loud...
...return for its unconditional support in World War I, Britain promised India eventual dominion status. When India did not get it fervent Leftist intellectuals were vociferous in exclaiming "Never Again!" The big question last week was whether Nationalist India would or would not support the British war, and how much independence Britain would pay as the price of that support...
Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
...brought her Siegfried Position force to 1,400,000. Reconnaissance flights continued. Soldiers said they knew it was a war because the cooties were biting. But it looked as if the Allies wanted to stall along with Herr Hitler's peace drive until November, when weather begins to get too severe for extensive, daily air activity. Then a whole winter on the economic front might strengthen the Allies' military position...