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...evacuation of all western Thrace in the path of the German rive has been ordered "on account of military operations," the Greek high command said, and the removal of civilians is proceeding in orderly manner...
...completed next June, will have some 500 buildings, a 17-care assembly & repair shop, a 6,300-ft. seawall, 24 miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within a 15-mile radius of the main station...
...Madrid University. But this forecast, actually written three years before Hitler came to power, soon had the ring of prophecy: "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
During his seven terms in the House, the Minnesota Congressman has advocated a two-ocean navy, has plumped loud & long for U. S. defense measures, from fortifying Guam to building a larger air force. Year ago he horrified the Navy's high command by proposing that they build some 80,000-ton battleships-two and a half times bigger than their mightiest dreadnoughts...
...week's end the scare blew up-but not the need for it. No one believes German claims-especially claims of sinkings, which the sinker can seldom confirm. But when the German High Command announced at week's end that 224,000 tons had been sunk on, over, and under the sea, and that of them 22 ships of 116,000 tons had been sunk by "a battleship unit" in the North Atlantic, it was obvious that the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were up to dirty work...