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Bermann-Fischer Verlag. Little or no exile publishing has been done in the U.S. in the languages of the smaller countries overrun by Hitler, or by antiFascists in Italian. Anti-Franco Spanish books are almost entirely published in Mexico and South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Languages in Exile | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...stories which follow this one detail some of the more interesting medical news which came last week out of Cleveland, a city overrun by suave, quiet, greying men, most of them in white shoes and snappy summer suits. They were 7,256 members of the American Medical Association, who gathered from all over the U.S. for their annual convention. If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved. Although the hotels were so jammed that latecomers were happy to get berths on an old lake steamer, the sessions were sober and earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors In Summer Suits | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...believed that King George would join the monarchs of other Nazi-overrun nations in England to "continue the fight...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...called compromise peace means slavery for every man, woman, and child upon their island. That slavery will only come to Britain, in my opinion, in the remote possibility that their country should be invaded by overwhelming forces, or that after weakening by a prolonged blockade should be overrun. And then the fight would go on in other parts of the globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Speech | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

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