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...unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
...slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
...this horrible mess Reza Khan swept like God's wrath: first as War Minister, then as Premier, finally (1925) as Shah in Shah. He reorganized the Army on western lines, put down brigandage, overthrew rebel chieftains, stripped the mullahs of their judicial and political powers, drew up a code of civil law, hobbled child marriage by raising to 15 the age at which a girl might marry, removed the veils from the womenfolk and bettered their status in life, ran the royal Grocery Boy out of the land, fostered education, set up schools and colleges, tore down slums, erected...
...finds that Nazi-educated boys, supposedly trained in soldierly virtues from childhood, often are unfit for soldiering. When they are put through the stiff tests for officers given by the Army's Psychological Laboratory (TIME, July 21), they are found impertinent, undisciplined, lazy, unreliable. Reason: the Nazi Party code had brought them up to be disrespectful of their parents and teachers...
Onslow Beach was whipped with rain and the breakers were capped with white when Task Force 18 began its exercises one night. On a high-topped dune "Howlin' Mad" Smith stood with his staff, scanning the sea through night glasses. Through the scud a signal light blinked in code: "Execute...