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What did General Haushofer tell Corporal Hitler in the privacy of Landsberg jail? Author Dorpalen thinks he spoke of more than Germany's need for living space -which Hitler incorporated into Mein Kampf. For General Haushofer had by then a whole philosophy of German expansion for which, perhaps, he hoped Hitler might be a useful propagandist. Instead, the corporal adopted the general and, when the Nazi regime was established, Geopolitician Haushofer was installed in Munich as director of a great brain trust known as the Geopolitical Institute...
...Cummings, substituting for the injured Don Forte, played a whale of a game, as did Charley Gudaitis, Jack Fisher, and Swede Anderson . . . Only Chapel Hill casualty was Most Landsberg, formerly wingback at Cornell ... Cummings did a job on the ex-Ithacan with a hard, high tackle which knocked him cold...
Japan had neglected anti-quake building construction for war implement production. Landsberg said, "when the sleeping monster" beneath the islands once more awakens Japan stands to suffer a loss equal to, if not greater than, that resulting from the 1923 temblor...
...There are some interesting sidelights to this matter of earthquakes," Landsberg said. "With minor shocks coming so often, it must be difficult for the Japs to protect their harbors and naval bases. I don't know how much it takes to set off a sea mine, but I have a hunch that the little men are having trouble keeping their mines anchored to the ocean floor...
...Landsberg said it is "quite conceivable that the ringing of alarm bells and quivering of seismograph needles in American universities may mark the end of Japan's aggression attempts and the proper time for the Allies to strike back at the islands...