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...January 1940: "Come then: let us to the task. . . . Fill the armies, rule the air, pour out the munitions, strangle the U-boats, sweep the mines, plow the land, build the ships, guard the streets, succor the wounded, uplift the downcast, and honor the brave...
LONDON--Prime Minister Winston Churchill, expressing confidence that the new Jugoslav regime would renounce the Axis pact, today promised "all possible aid and succor" from the British Empire, "and, I doubt not, in its own way, from the United States...
...lake, to Libya. They were doubtless in the Mediterranean area to operate against Greece. If so, the Greeks' two remaining hopes were that German tanks would prove no more efficient in hilly country than Italian tanks, and that, to the extent that Dictator Hitler had come to succor Dictator Mussolini, George of Britain would help George of Greece...
...Rousing false hopes. After taking Polish radio stations last September, the Germans proceeded to broadcast, in Polish, such "news" as that hundreds of British bombers had arrived to succor Poland. (Three weeks ago, during the retreat from Paris, U. S. correspondents reported from Tours that on the road at night men would step up to refugees and say: "Vive la France! Russia has declared war on Germany...
...their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...