American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms.
Words of hope came from all parts of the British Empire and from its allies. That great master of language, Winston Churchill, called the Lend-Lease Act "a new Magna Charta, which not only has regard to the rights and laws...
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