Simms: Triple Entente scheduled for Europe
France will play traditional role
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Yanks order shellfire on own position
Barrage helps to lift Nazi siege
By Boyd Lewis, United Press staff writer
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Victims recite Nazi tortures
Horrors perpetuated in Low Countries
By Ronald Clark, United Press staff writer
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Nation warned against delay in conscription
Author of draft law urges action now
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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MacArthur’s guerrillas –
U.S. submarines supply Filipino patriots with quinine, aspirin and even gum
Handpicked Americans train for years, then work secretly all over the islands
By Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
One of the most fascinating stories I’ve heard in this war is that one of the English mothers whose children have just arrived home talking “jive” and “swing” after four years in the United States.
Goodness knows, even American parents have a hard enough time understanding children these days. You can imagine what is happening in conservative English homes when the youngsters discuss the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace as being “off the cob, but groovy,” or refer to Lord Halifax as looking like a tall Sinatra.
Even the terms “zoot” and “beat me daddy” are beginning to turn up inside the hallowed precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. Now they’re afraid American slang may sweep the nation. Of course, the same thing may happen to us here. Our own G.I.’s may all come home with English accents and – oh, my goodness! Can you imagine going to Brooklyn in a couple of years and finding everyone there talking like Noel Coward?