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Terrific was the plot: a scheme to sweep aside New York City's 18,000 police, bomb a Jewish newspaper office and the Communist Daily Worker, wipe out all the Jews, seize U. S. Government gold in Manhattan, sabotage and then commandeer public utilities, set up a U. S. dictatorship. For practicing their plot, the 18 central characters had a rifle range. For the national affiliations necessary to their plan, they had connections with one of the several anti-Semitic "Christian Fronts" which infest the U. S. and particularly New York City (TIME...
...Herr Hitler made the ironic announcement that the northern end of Sylt, a 23-mile sandspit off the Danish-German border, was closed to visitors because it was now a, "bird sanctuary." Every one knew that Sylt's birds were mechanical fowl, their eggs bombs, their nests at List and Westerland protected by coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers...
...pilot imprisoned in Germany wrote home about how, diving to bomb a submarine, he plunged into the ocean. Excerpt...
...week's end these white-clad raiders had not yet reached the railroad. But Finnish fliers managed to bomb it a couple of times, and there were reports of a food shortage in Murmansk...
...wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit a major attack, delays for hours any countermeasures; to General Duroure, shocked to the depths of his soul because a Zeppelin has dropped a bomb on his headquarters, destroying his "things"; to an expensive restaurant in Paris, where the manufacturer, Haverkamp, turns a neat deal in grenades over partridge and Burgundy. These characters are not satirized; they don't have...