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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best that Frenchmen could hope for was to be allowed to live in peace in Adolf Hitler's Europe. And in Hitler's Europe France faced an unknown future, blaming for the past, not Hitler, but her own people and leaders who had let slip through their fingers the heritage of Louis...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...
Refugees whose whereabouts were unknown: French Trade Union Leader Leon Jouhaux and Belgian Walter Schevenels, secretary to the International Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
...stopped when professional politicos pointed out the obstacles: that Wendell Willkie was a businessman and, even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that he was unknown to most U. S. voters; that his stand against isolation had made him political poison in the Middle West and his support of the reciprocal trade treaties had ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist...
...About like this: Arthur James, 72; Arthur Vandenberg, 67; Herbert Hoover, 44; Hanford MacNider, 33; Wendell Willkie, 26; Frank Gannett, 24; Styles Bridges, 24; Joe Martin, 20; Arthur Capper, 18; Raymond Baldwin, 16; Charles McNary, 10; Hamilton Fish, 2; unknown...