Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This morning a member of our family was talking to one of his customers who arrived yesterday in Montreal from England on a Canadian liner. He was told that the gentleman had himself seen the missing German liner Bremen towed into a British port (either north of England or in Scotland, but the latter probably correct) over two weeks ago with the name plates and a few other identifying features already removed...
...When seen the Bremen was in drydock and was hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...Having seen Mrs. William H. Corwith, of Rockville Centre, N. Y.. elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Legionnaires threw the last empty beer can in the gutter, put away their rattles and went home...
...efforts ... so obstinately, so ardently but, alas, so vainly fought to preserve Europe and the world. Before our eyes now passes a vision of mad horror and gloomy despair. ... In a tumultuous life, this race has known hours of agony and periods of apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience...
WATS. The female uniform most often seen tramping about the British countryside is the khaki of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (tunic, skirt, a cap that has upfolded ear-protecting flaps). Formed in 1938, the WATS are a revival of War I's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -the celebrated and occasionally indiscreet WAACs who went to France 57,000 strong under Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (later Darned...