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...fascist-minded Malanite Herenigde, warned of the trend toward equalization, cited "horrifying" instances of white women offering cigarets to black soldiers. Spat Die Transvaler at Premier Smuts: "You have forfeited the right to be mentioned in the same breath with great Afrikanders. Do you want future generations to refer to your name with horror...
...cold sweat last week. Said a terse X & B. report on a man he was about to promote: "This man has held several responsible jobs. His habits are good. But ie is of German extraction and his loyalty is questioned. His closest associates refer to him as 'the Nazi.' " Last week, thanks to D. & B., "the Nazi's" days in Washington were numbered...
...Kennedy had to wade in on the neglected teeth of Nome and hundreds of miles around, deal on the spot with cases which any ordinary dentist at home would refer to a specialist. When dentistry was over for the day (often around midnight), overflow guests of the crowded hotel often slept on beds made up in the anteroom. Dr. Kennedy's prices were fairly high-$20 for an inlay-but not high as Alaska prices went: coal was $40 a ton, Coca-Cola 25? a bottle (when it could be had), watermelons $6 each...
...humble opinion, will go down in the annals of historic achievement as one of the most remarkable characters, and perhaps one of the greatest patriots of Allied Nations embroiled in World War II. I refer to General Draja Mihailovich, Minister of War to the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile. . . . This little man with an iron will whose unsung praises will one day be heralded to a people victoriously released from the yoke of our common enemy...
Only danger was that some literal-minded OWI newcomer might some day refer to the defeat of the French armies at Blenheim by Austria's Prince Eugene, might label it a World War II* development, might thus thoroughly mystify the U.S. public...