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Last week, making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the new Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture...
...sure whether he will lease or sell the Humphrey (which he plans to rechristen the Captain John Roen), or make her the flagship of his own fleet. But one thing is sure: when the Captain John Roen clears port next spring on her maiden voyage, Captain John Roen will be at the helm...
...course of all my travels into liberated territory I have never seen a more abominable sight than Maiden, near Lublin, Hitler's notorious Vernichtungslager [extermination camp] where more than half a million European men, women and children were massacred. . . .* This was not a concentration camp; it was a gigantic murder plant...
Bearded, greying, Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi Pasha grieved to see his subjects forego the joys of marriage because the price of wives had soared. The most diligent young Sudanese could not hope to save the $400 a buxom maiden's parents asked; $100 brides were never of much account...
Actually, the only notes he ever takes are of the names & addresses which stud his column (occasionally accompanied by such messages as "Corporal Charles Malatesta of Maiden, Mass, asks me to tell his wife that he loves her"). His usual practice is to attach himself to one small unit for several days (in last week's columns it was an ack-ack gun crew), and live just as they live, doing no writing at all. When he has learned enough, he goes back to the rear and spins out as many columns as the experience is good for. Sometimes...