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Five of Europe's Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...
...Soviet Government ordered all citizens to turn in their radios. Reason: the Government did not want the people to hear German propaganda. The Russians obediently waited in line for days to give up their sets. Each set was tagged with its owner's name and stored away. When Lesueur heard about this and tried to borrow a set, he was told: "Why, we can't give you someone else's radio...
...Russian broadcasting equipment is good but scarcely compares with the U.S.'s (including much U.S.-made machinery in Russia). Warcaster Lesueur was not heard in the U.S. until he persuaded the Russians to jack up their frequencies...
...Like U.S. newspaper correspondents in Moscow, Lesueur had to rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
This journey produced one striking bit of Sovietana. Lesueur stopped one day to ask a Russian child busy digging a hole where he thought he was getting to. Unlike U.S. youngsters, who know that if they dig far enough they will come out in strange and wonderful China, the child replied: "America...