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...German High Command reports," said a Red communique, "are Arabian fairy tales." The communique put German losses at more than 1,500,000 casualties, 6,000 tanks, 8,000 cannon, 6,000 planes; Russian losses at 600,000 casualties, 5,000 tanks, 7,000 guns, 4,000 planes...
...lower than in any month since he took office in May 1940. There was encouragement even in the Nazi claims for the month of July: 407,600 tons of Allied shipping, a drop of 47% from the 769,950 tons claimed for June. (Experts generally cut the German High Command's naval triumph figures almost in half.) The British took this as a sign that they were doing a lot better in the battle of the blockade, pointed out that July, with its lengthy stretches of daylight (in the region of Iceland as much as 24 hours), is considered...
...Freedom, Inc., U.S. immediate-intervention group, announced that underground German sources had sent it news of another forthcoming German peace campaign. Adolf Hitler would become "ill" and possibly "resign" -to make things easier for Winston Churchill, who has vowed not to negotiate with Nazi leaders. Then the German High Command would make proposals...
...wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...
Last week Cavalryman Surles, dreaming wistfully of field maneuvers, was again back on the old job, appointed head of Army Public Relations to replace Major General Robert C. Richardson Jr., who transferred to command of the 7th Army Corps...