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...Rationing boards braced themselves for a flood of appeals. Loudest wails came from salesmen accustomed to burning five to ten gallons a day in covering their territories. Best they could get was usually a 6-3 card, good for little more than one gallon...
...south Wales, meanwhile, a campaign was started to elect Frank Owen, now Private No. 7956306 in the Royal Armored Corps, as an Independent candidate to Parliament. Until the draft abruptly silenced him two months ago, Owen was one of Britain's loudest objectors to 2D. Crack editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, tall, flamboyant Owen, who called himself a "Sudeten Welshman," had struck awakening punches against British war lethargy, led the fight for a Second Front. He was called up this spring, immediately after Beaverbrook left for the U.S. Some thought it unusual that he was not deferred...
Rumania's loudest yelp came from Premier Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's nephew Mihai, who is Acting Foreign Minister. "During the last year," he said, "northern Transylvania [the part Hitler gave to Hungary], cradle of our country, was submitted to a regime of oppression and humiliation. . . . Its population has been jeered and tortured, its churches destroyed. Its land was taken away from the peasants. . . . We have the duty . . . to declare that such a state of affairs can no longer continue...
...when the U.S. first adopted daylight time as a war measure, farmers were the loudest objectors. The cow, they cried, is a delicately balanced creature, yields less milk for defense when her hours are disturbed. The dew, they insisted, stays on the grass until 9 a.m. (10 a.m. daylight saving time), and farmers cannot work their fields until the dew dries. Rising before dawn, they declared, they would be dog-tired long before day's end. Said New York's blue-blood dairyman Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth: "Your net gain is fatigue for the farmer...
...United Nations agreement was a brilliant gesture, but not even its loudest applauder claimed that it organized the anti-Axis world for war or peace. Easy acceptance of the words might make people forget that only the painful drudgery of international cooperation and the abnegation of selfish nationalism could unite the united nations. That was yet to come...