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Fact & Fancy. The President's action -and warning-had been long delayed. Even if the U.S. continued to keep its promises to the world, hunger would still gnaw at the bellies of millions. Great Britain, trying to help others while she herself still needed help, had cut some rations below their wartime level (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...lovers get away with the murder for a while-but cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
Second Thoughts. Next day a fear began to gnaw. General Kurt Dittmar, No. 1 military commentator, went on the air. "The Atlantic Wall never became an inflexible structure of steel and concrete," he patiently explained. Defense in depth was the Wehrmacht's plan, he added reassuringly. The Volkischer Beobachter shouted: "In this fateful hour, the German nation is rallying around the Fiahrer. . . . Success for the Allies would simply mean the end." The forgetful radio declared that the invasion had come because Moscow wanted...
...than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators in the Colosseum : "Morituri te salutant" (Those who are about to die salute you). But in case the façade trembles or Darlans gnaw their way through it, Mussolini has made certain that those who helped him to power, and those who have been crawling on his back, will be with him when the walls come down...
...ideas it was like an invention by Salvador Dali, not least because in the grotesque juxtaposition was revealed so much of . . . their sense of the necessity to acknowledge what they could not experience in their hearts because life lad set them too high, the agenbite of inwit, the gnaw of an impersonal remorse and a dim perception of the far-off sorrow of others...