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...Papers" were mostly excerpts from pre-War II depositions made to British consuls in Munich, Frankfort, elsewhere in Germany, by both Aryans and Jews who had survived terms in Nazi camps, mostly famed Dachau near Munich and Buchenwald near Weimar. The White Paper quotes "Herr X, a well-to-do Jewish businessman," released after six weeks in Buchenwald, as saying that "Jews were told that the Führer himself had given orders that Jews might receive up to sixty strokes" of the lash...
...relief from British broadcasting, especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap-courtesy of Lux, Pepsodent, Alka-Seltzer, etc. But war put the commercial "outlaws" out of business-precariously situated Luxembourg for reasons of neutrality, Normandie and other French stations for la belle propaganda. This left blacked-out Britishers wholly at the mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone...
...that was needed to make War II the legitimate heir to War I was a knitting bee, and busily clacking their needles this week were more than 5,000,000 British women, more than one-ninth of the whole population of the Kingdom. Yet with the demand for yarn ten times greater than in peacetime, the price last week was successfully held to eightpence (14?) per ounce, up just a penny from the pre-war level...
...Fate of Man, finished last summer, is Wells's pre-war answer to a challenge to describe "the world as I see it and what is happening to it." Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species." For war, once a selective elimination of "the young male surplus," has become through technology a prodigious wastage. Wells sees general enlightenment as the only hope. Against groups that he thinks impede it he lets...
Earle's book, "Blackout", will be published early in November by J. B. Lippincott Company. It reports his experiences in London during the pre-war flurry, in provincial France during the "war of nerves" and his observations in Germany at the peak of tension...