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...against Finland has given Whites all over the world new hope. In January tall, hawk-faced Boris Sergievsky, Russian aviator in World War I and now one of the best test pilots in the U. S., sounded the Whites' battle cry: "We who did not flee from Russia but only retreated, our weapons in our hands, are ready now to return." Up to last week the challenge had had only two results: White Russians everywhere lifted champagne to their lips and drank to the challenge, and in Paris last week the price of pre-Soviet Russian bonds jumped...
After spending four months in a Nazi concentration camp and witnessing all the horrors of Jewish persecution in Austria, Dr. Ludwig Schiffer is now at Harvard in the Law School. Until he was forced to flee in December, 1938, Dr. Schiffer was a prominent lawyer in Vienna, but now he must start again as a first year student...
...quaking neutrals last week were the Swiss. In their two largest cities, Basle and Zurich, both within easy striking distance of the Reich, ominous instructions from the Swiss General Staff were distributed from house to house. These ordered the two cantons' 864,000 citizens to get ready to flee to the countryside in case Switzerland is attacked, warned them to hold themselves in permanent readiness for an evacuation call which may come at any moment...
...encircling forces cut the Russian supply lines. Their food gone, the Russians had to live on provisions dropped by parachute. But last week help was no nearer than the Kollaan and Aitto rivers, and the two divisions at Kitela, their morale sapped by hunger and cold, could not even flee back to Russia...
...last war anti-submarine warfare started from scratch. At one time Britain tried to train seals to hunt submarines. Various more practical expedients were tested-mine barriers, nets,-"mystery ships" (disguised trawlers and other craft which pretended to flee from submarines, then suddenly unmasked guns when the pursuing U-boats came close). Most effective defense against submarines was found to be the convoy. But the British wanted to hunt down the subs and destroy them. The problem was that of a blind man groping for a frog in a fishpond. So the British decided to use ears instead of eyes...