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Richer Abroad. The Dutch are today the largest holders of gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities of any continental European nation (about $6,000,000,000) and the largest foreign holders, next to the British, of U. S. securities (about $1,000,000,000). But the greatest wealth of The Netherlands is the wealth of the Indies...
...Dutch have experienced fewer revolts in The Indies than the British have in India, it is largely because the natives of the Indies are by & large more indolent. Besides, the fact that they are split among more than 150 different races and languages tends to make widespread rebellion next to impossible...
Lublin, Poland, the city which once complained because the Tsars changed a nobleman's castle into a prison, was recently chosen by Adolf Hitler as the site of his long-planned Jew-sump. By next April 1, according to a German government decree, 150,000 Jews must be evacuated to Lublin or other "reservations" like it from Bohemia, 65,000 from Vienna, 30,000 from Posen and the onetime Polish Corridor, 175,000 from the Lodz district, 240,000 from Germany proper...
Although the Roman Catholic Church hates war as much as the next Christian, its attitude towards war has always been realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained...
...Next day, when correspondents gathered in the Propaganda Ministry for their regular morning conference, there was hell to pay. Blond, youthful Dr. Karl Bomer, head of the press department, grimly read passages from Newsman Conger's dispatch, exclaiming: "Lies! . . . Scoundrelly reporting! ... False to the last syllable!" Added another propaganda official: "It's worse than a lost battle...