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Food. Civilians scrambled madly for scraps tossed from trains by homebound prisoners. Nazi guards sometimes begged for contents of Red Cross parcels from home. Apart from such gifts, prisoners thought that they fared about as Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell...
...Many a homebound U.S. citizen had pondered the Senatorial mission, wondering dubiously if it was worth all the expense and trouble. Last week came the answer...
This week the N. A. M. disclaimed Dr. Robey's premature pronouncements, said his views were strictly his own. Meanwhile his full report was at the printer's, complete with further quotations, and homebound educators knew they had not heard the last...
Last week Wendell Willkie arrived in the U. S. gusty with a new enthusiasm: meteorology. He had been in on an exciting experiment. At i a.m., high over the dark Atlantic, he had tumbled out of his berth and into the navigating room of Pan American Airways' homebound Dixie Clipper. With President Juan Terry Trippe and other Pan American officials, Willkie eagerly watched the instrument panels as the huge ship droned along at various altitudes, feeling out strange east winds on her tail. At 4,000 to 5,000 feet the passengers' smiles were broadest, the plane making...
...Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...