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Leader in Danger. Most startling and circumstantial indication of potential trouble in Germany was a kind of pastoral letter, signed by Erich Koch, Nazi Gauleiter for East Prussia, and apparently circulated among party leaders of the district. A copy of the letter, smuggled out through Holland and vouched for by the Netherlands authorities, declared...
Grizzled, 62-year-old Reverend G. H. Grundy of Norfolk thought that two things were keeping Germany going: the Gestapo and the Hitler Youth. Said he: "Hitler has made the youth and the youth are ruling Germany. There is only one solution and that is to let Prussia be occupied by the Russians for three months. I think that would be long enough...
...Russians want a strong and friendly Poland; according to Polish sources, the British have unofficially urged the Polish Government in Exile to cede the Pripet Marshes to Russia, keep the important city of Lwów, and presumably compensate themselves in East Prussia and German Silesia. In the Balkans, Russia will want a strong voice in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria, where Soviet influence is strong...
...Department's expert on Russia is bright and young Charles L. ("Chick") Bohlen. Tall, fair, long-faced, Bohlen descends from Prussia's aristocratic Bohlens. is related to the head of Germany's vast Krupp arms works. Bohlen speaks fluent Russian, is for Russians as Russians, on his record is against the Soviet Government as such...
From their sunny cabins in the sky, U.S. Eighth Air Force bombardiers last week pinpointed targets in East Prussia, Pomerania, Occupied Poland. It meant: 1) there is no haven in any part of Germany for bomb-sick Nazis, either by day (U.S.) or by night (R.A.F.) and 2) the German fighter force has been pushed farther & farther inland, its elasticity about gone. Some American bombs fell on Danzig, already bombed by the Red Air Force. The cost: 29 U.S. bombers, 91 German fighters...