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...years," said Deputy Heuillard, "I was in a concentration camp. I saw die all my comrades in the Resistance network. I saw die in Flossenburg almost the entire shipment of prisoners who had come from Buchenwald ... We had sworn an oath among us that the eventual survivors would never permit Germany to recreate her military strength. Today, despite all these memories, despite all these material and moral ruins still yawning before us, we are about to recreate the German army ... Is our public opinion ready to accept the consequences? Ask those who were deported or the families of those...
...been attached by the U.S. Congress: before getting those Yankee dollars, foreign governments had to acknowledge their adherence to "the free world." Subarjo disliked these conditions, but signed. A couple of days later two U.S. Army colonels went down to see Defense Minister Sewaka about another matter: a shipment of arms privately purchased in U.S. by the Indonesian government. The news spread through the gossipy capital of Jakarta that the government had sold out to the Western bloc. "American imperialism!" shouted the politicos. A newspaper published a cartoon showing Subarjo on his knees, offering Indonesian independence to MSA, represented...
...sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local merchant, Sears got them for $12 apiece and sold them for $14. In six months Sears, then 22, cleared $5,000, moved to Minneapolis and then...
Duel in the Sun. In Los Angeles, the junior chamber of commerce received five battered umbrellas from the Miami junior chamber of commerce to aid its fight against "torrential rains," declined to use them because "the umbrellas went through Florida hurricane prior to shipment...
...virtual one-man war against German occupation. U.S. and British generals who served with him in Italy and France after his escape stood in constant awe, and De Lattre made sure that they continued to do so. Once he chewed out General Marshall himself because of a delayed shipment of supplies. Years later, informed that Marshall had forgotten the incident, De Lattre remarked: "Nonsense! The general is polite. Nobody whom I have castigated ever forgets...