Word: hollande
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This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...
...country as powerful as ours, instead of being weak and crumbling! You have sworn to keep a solemn oath! Hear our song of victory: 'Today Germany is ours and tomorrow the whole world will be ours.' . . . We expect you to imitate the example of your brothers in Holland and Belgium...
Here a nicely managed plot thickens and begins to curdle. Not only do they find a stowaway, but she gives birth to a baby. Rough sailors with hearts of Holland Rusk are softened by a Helpless Mite. After shipping this comber of sentiment the story rights itself and moves ahead with almost its old blend of sinister excitement, rather brilliant writing, and psychological veracity. But the diaper sequences are not quite forgivable in an author who can produce the rest of the book...
...class German restaurants included snails, lobster, frogs' legs, crabs, trout and caviar in their menus while promising their customers succulent Schweinebraten and Wiener Schnitzel to be carved from one million Danish pigs and 10,000 cattle condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads...
...fury of the Nazi air attack on Britain mounted last week. But the most ominous event caused no death and destruction: Germany suspended all non-military traffic, even the mails, in northwestern France and western Belgium and Holland, "sealed" those areas-just as she had done along her western border just before the terrible Whitsuntide Blitzkrieging into The Lowlands. Britons who had been waiting for "It" to begin, the dread Battle of Britain, had no longer to wait...