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...Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
...last year defied Hitler's order to release several thousand defectives from that charitable institution. His reason: belief that they would be killed according to Nazi euthanasia theory. Nonetheless the Nazis tried to make capital of him in South America by a drawing (see cut] showing a British bomb hitting the Institute...
...supplies from her western allies. A U.S. military mission was going to Chungking. Last week Chinese land forces launched an offensive that carried them to the gates of Nanchang and Foochow, the latter on the coast 880 miles east of Chungking. China's minuscule but growing Air Force bombed Hanshan and Tsingteh, nearly 700 miles from Chungking, and returned without a casualty. By 1943 China expected to be strong enough in the air to bomb the Japanese on their own soil...
...insure against air attacks being launched [against the U.S.'] from any of these bases . . . they must be kept under surveillance . . . and we must be ready to bomb such installations as soon as they are discovered. If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be prepared to seize these outlying bases to prevent their development by the enemy as bases of operation against...
Last week a bomb dropped on this comparative industrial paradise. OPM still remained, precariously, in the "no squawks" category, but OPACS was now, according to one radio bigwig, "a bunch of goddam, nitwitted, half-baked college graduates." Reason: a new civilian allocation order for plastics raw materials (induced by an OPM priorities order on formaldehyde, other chemicals, and their synthetic resins). The order eliminated their use for radio cabinets, 40% of which are now made of plastics...