Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which of you wins ... all right, if Germany does command the seas, it doesn't affect us. . . ." All this although he has no sympathy whatever for Nazidom! At every word he utters, I can see Hitler rubbing his bloodstained hands. The result of all this is that I lie awake. He has murdered my sleep-so I open the doors of Peking with Lin Yutang's key. There are 800-odd pages and each one enthrals you with beauty, humor and interest...
...State Department pondered: what of Greenland, with its unexploited riches and its strategic nearness to the U. S., if Hitler wins his war and claims his western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...
Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls the world price. No. 1 world consumer, the U. S. uses 25,000 to 35,000 flasks * a year, normally buys half its quicksilver from the cartel, produces nearly all the rest itself...
...HORIZONTAL-Duff Gilfond-Vanguard ($2.50). Onetime Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...
...rich Rumanian off fields lie beyond Hungary, and it is these that Germany is going to need. Italy may or may not help Germany, for Italy and Mussolini are maintaining a "kick them when they're down" policy, and want to be in at the division of the victor's spoils...