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...President to take the step, virtually conceded that his freezing plan had been abandoned. Pressed to explain, he said it was too late: "The barn is empty. The horse is gone." Asked whether it was "a very big horse," Mr. Morgenthau sadly answered: "Well, it was larger than a Shetland pony...
...jaunty, whistling Maurice Chevalier cycling off to his greengrocer's, a market basket bouncing on the handle bars. Similarly straitened by gasoline famine, Cora Lapercerie, once the lissome toast of gaslit Montmartre, now circa 250 lb., rode over the cobbles in a small cart drawn by a straining Shetland pony...
...Kansas City, Mo., tenants of Mrs. Mary R. Pratt complained that she was housing a zoo. Police discovered in her basement: two owls, a goat, four Shetland ponies, a police dog, a tribe of cats, a monkey, a full-grown lion. Annoyed, Mrs. Pratt said the tenants could move whenever they felt like it. The police left. The animals remained...
...Germany provided the usual week's food for argument when a squadron of Heinkel bombers stooped to a British convoy near the Shetland Islands. The Nazi pilots claimed they scattered the convoy, hit six ships, set one afire, sank one patrol boat. The British denied any ship was hurt and described how one of the Heinkels, diving through clouds to escape a British pursuit squadron, came out below only to encounter other pursuits, craftily flying a lower level patrol. These shot the Heinkel down...
...penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. British reports said lots of bombs fell but no ships or men were hurt. Nazi reports claimed square hits on four...