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December 6, 1941

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Paddy of the R.A.F.

A. J. Liebling

Profile of Flight Lieutenant Brendan Finucane of the R.A.F.

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School Days and Inflation in Germany

Edith Groth-Hansen

The writer, a Dane, was sent to school in Germany for one year, to learn the language. Fraulein von Levetzow ran the school. She was quite a snob and had …

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