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When President Roosevelt gave sleek, greying Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, commander of New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, a new job, all kinds of hush-hush rumors about it floated around Washington: that Colonel Donovan was setting up a superspy bureau filled with blonde Mata Haris and burnoosed Arab leaders, that he was starting a U.S. version of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, that he had been gently tucked away on a shelf, under an imposing title. Actually, his job was exactly what Franklin Roosevelt said it was: Coordinator of Information...
Said he: "Even now, as I speak, sleek grey destroyers flying the American flag are plunging their bows into the waters of the North Atlantic. . . . No enemy action can stop the ceaseless tide of ships coming here daily . . . laden with something more substantial than hopes and sympathy...
...almost exactly the same instant on the sleek turf courts of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in New Jersey, two different linesmen, on two different courts, cried "Out!" Both balls were hit on match points. One was struck by Don McNeill, national champion, ranked No. 1 by virtue of his victory in the singles on Forest Hills grass courts last year; the other by Frank Parker, national clay court champion, who has won eight of the nine hard-court tournaments he has played in this year...
Under a sunny afternoon sky the sleek grey ship moved slowly down New York Bay. She had 464 silent passengers on board. For them there would be no more cocktails in glittering bars with wide-eyed café socialites, no lavish dinners for affable U.S. businessmen. They were Nazi and Fascist propaganda agents, consular officers and their families, bound homeward to the grim realities of the New Order...
...State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might be the beginning of French military cooperation with Germany." Sleek, long-nosed Fernand de Brinon, who is made of the same stuff as Pierre Laval, is rumored to be in line for the all-important Ministry of the Interior, one of the five posts now held by Admiral Darlan...