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When the score was added up, the R.A.F. claimed having wrecked-"either permanently or for a long time to come" -17 ships of about 90,000 tons, including the 17,000-ton Balocran. As is almost always the case with air attacks, this claim was doubtless super-sanguine; but if it was anywhere near the truth, the R.A.F. had in one afternoon put almost as much tonnage out of action as the Nazis do in an average week of the Battle of the Atlantic...
Line Too Long? The much-talked-of Stalin Line doubtless gave Marshal Keitel a little malaise-but doubtless not much...
...center of gravity to the hinterland-and official statistics now put 33% of Russia's coal, power, iron, 80% of her copper production east of the Urals. But how well the Five-Year Plans have succeeded otherwise no one outside of Russia and few inside know. Doubtless the center of gravity has not yet shifted as far as Russian leaders wish...
...after he saw the Emperor, Foreign Minister Matsuoka summoned German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, who was doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
...reasons. One was strategic (see p. 22), the other domestic. As the new campaign began Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler submitted a report on Communist espionage and sabotage, designed to convince Germans and the world that Germany's internal troubles were inspired by Moscow. Truth was that, although Moscow doubtless did stir up some unrest, Germany was rumbling with spontaneous discontent. From one of TIME'S correspondents, until recently in Germany, came these facts...