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...moated castle of Wynendaele, south of Bruges, the pale young man with sunken eyes and rumpled curly brown hair faced another sleepless night. For 14 days he had watched terror-stricken people fleeing across the fertile fields and meadows of North Flanders. For 14 nights he had seen the moonlit May sky turn murky yellow from the glow of burning villages. Four-fifths of his country had been devastated and overrun; how many of his countrymen had been slaughtered he did not know. As Commander in Chief of the Belgian Army holding the Allied left flank, he had seen...
...Sleepless would lie down...
...Constant Zimmerman, who after 20 years in The Netherlands East Indies, went to Manhattan five years ago as Netherlands Indies Trade Commissioner. With Holland's flight, control of the Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able to give U. S. business a good, if sketchy, idea of readjustments in the empire while he drank coffee from office Gouda china in Manhattan's new Holland House...
Nach Paris. At 5 a.m. next morning a drowsy-voiced night operator summoned the press to a 6 o'clock conference. Not until 8:25 did Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop come in, pale and red-eyed from a sleepless night. His voice husky from strain, he rasped, "England and France at last dropped the mask. The attack on the Ruhr Valley was definitely planned." Then followed the usual tirade of accusation and denouncement. Belgium and The Netherlands had "plotted" against the Reich, had "fostered a German revolution," etc., etc. Long before he had finished, journalists knew that Germany...
Those who were defeated felt a little discouraged; that is, for a day or so. I saw some college golfers reach Wakonda delivering bundles of nerves from many sleepless overanxious nights. In spite of being defeated, many were fairly well pleased with their games; and they certainly enjoyed themselves. It was a big adventure to them...