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...Jolas phoned Joyce that she had found a two-room flat in St. Gérand-le-Puy, urged him to move there for safety. Joyce refused. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book* that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Mrs. Jolas said she hadn't. "Well," said Joyce, "it wouldn't hurt to drop a postal card into the box." The Nazis crossed the Marne...
...Gare de Lyon in Paris was closed. Joyce said that couldn't possibly be true because his friend, Irish Poet Samuel Beckett, had just come from Paris. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Next day Paris fell. Day after that Mrs. Jolas ran into Giorgio Joyce on the street in St. Gérand-le-Puy, with all the Joyce luggage, looking for a place to stay. So, by then, were hundreds of others...
...Bengasi, British fliers swooped low to machine-gun hangar attendants, unloaded their bombs over a fleet of 100 planes drawn up on the field. At Bengasi itself, five Italian ships in the harbor were blasted with incendiaries and explosives. At every Italian air base around the Cyrenaican bulge to Martúba the British kept pounding...
...Portugal's famous explorers, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral and Ferdinand Magellan, extended the horizons of the world, Portugal became the great European mart for silks, spices, precious metals and gems from the Indies. Reaching her zenith by 1580, she began rapidly to decline, fell under Spanish rule for 60 years until a revolution in 1640 restored her independence. Napoleon drove her ruler to Brazil in 1807 and in 1822 that country declared its independence. Her possessions plucked away by oncoming nations, she saw her great empire shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king...
...pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring only such small objects along as they could carry in their hands and pockets...