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...Moscow-wise President Benes had suddenly observed out loud that in his opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
...Because of the necessity for tactful avoidance of unnecessary criticism between allies in time of war . . . we have hitherto allowed some things which aroused misgiving to pass in silence. Recent events, however, have convinced us that continued silence will only play into the hands of the isolationists and enemies of aid to Russia. For they are not silent, and every act of the Soviet press or government which can be misunderstood or criticized in America is grist to their mill...
...hitherto had not disturbed Monte Carlo. New-rich Germans arrived to spend the proceeds of the loot of France. Collaborationists and refugees with more money than respectability swarmed in. Prices soared. The average price of a meal in 1942, was $24. Wine and liquors easily added another $100 to the bill. British whiskey and gin were $40 a bottle. Good brands of British cigarets were $22 for 50. Food was plentiful and good for those who had the price. The Germans ordered an end of that, too, demanded rationing for neutral Monagasoues. The Government of Prince Louis II acceded...
Said Lord Lang: "Recent attacks upon cities like Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...
...before the break, 90 officers of the GOU (Gobierno, Orden, Unidad), the Army clique which has bossed the Government of President Ramirez, were called to a meeting in the Municipal Building. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert, hitherto no friend of the U.S., but no fool either, made a brief and urgent speech. The officers listened in frigid silence. Then Gilbert left for the Foreign Office, where he moaned: "I am in the battle of my life...