Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels the escape of King Leopold III from the Nazis caused neither joy nor sorrow, but considerable embarrassment. The Socialist Party demanded that the King stay out of Belgium. The Catholic Party declared that if Leopold was kept out it would leave the Cabinet, in which it holds the balance of power...
After Pearl Harbor, radio moaned quietly over its censorship clamps. Last week, after V-E day, there were no particular shouts of. joy when some of the clamps were relaxed. Radio had patriotically toed the line and found, to its surprise, that listeners were not missing much. Now, for better or worse, the customers could again tune in: 1) full weather forecasts; 2) man-in-the-street interviews; 3) record request programs...
Again & again, in all languages, they called on God to witness their joy...
These men, cheering as hard as their feeble strength would permit, tore them selves getting through the barbed wire to touch us, to talk to us. Some of them were nearly mad with joy. Here were the men of all nations whom Hitler's agents had picked out as prime opponents of Naziism; here were the very earliest Hitler haters. Here were German social democrats, Spanish survivors of the Spanish Civil War, a correspondent for the Paris Soir, who cried so hard I could not get his name...
...Joy in the Inferno. We went into one barracks after another. So many men were sick and possibly dying of starvation and beatings that they merely lay or leaned or sat shoulder to shoulder, too weak to do more than grin glassily. It was here that we even found some Hindus...