The Soul of the "c.R.B." a French View of the Hoover Relief Work
The book The Soul of the "c.R.B." a French View of the Hoover Relief Work was written by author Saint-René Taillandier, Madeleine Marie Louise Chevrillon Mme., 1875- [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of The Soul of the "c.R.B." a French View of the Hoover Relief Work book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Soul of the "c.R.B." a French View of the Hoover Relief Work a good or bad book?
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"Yes, how many times we have watched with the director. Captain Lucey, the mooring of one of these ships. While he gave his orders I looked at the Meuse; its gray, fast-flowing stream had passed by Verdun, Dinant, Namur, and Liege; and as I thought of the peaceful harbors of the Pacific Ocean from which the ship had come, I remembered words I had heard in a hospital from a little French sol- dier: 'The evening that we passed through Dinant the Meuse was red because so many bodies stabbed with b...ayonets were bleeding in it.' The Meuse was red no longer; it was a dull gray, under a low-hanging sky. Weeks had passed since the bleeding corpses had rolled and drifted out to the eternal oblivion of the ocean; the river had forgotten them. "While the unloading was going on the masters of the Dutch lighters sat waiting on benches smoking their long pipes, their feet in 120 THE SOUL OF THE G. R. B. white wooden shoes. Captain Lucey had to come to terms with them, for it was on their great flat boats that suppHes could get into Belgium and France, by way of the canals.
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