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Perhaps Supreme Warlord Hitler in tended to use his Balkan Army for a thrust into Greece whose Army was still pushing at the Italians last week, or at least as a diversion to pull away British forces pounding the Italians in Libya. Perhaps it was to be used against Turkey or as insurance against Soviet ambitions during an all out battle in the West. Supreme Warlord Hitler gave no indication, and suspension of all except official communications from Rumania left the whereabouts of the major body of his troops unknown...
Whether these four men could work smoothly together, unanimous on all important points, remained to be seen. On one point they were in complete agreement. Day after their appointment they called upon the U. S. public "to recognize the full gravity of the crisis . . . pull off their coats and roll up their sleeves. . . . The contest which produced this crisis is irreconcilable in character and cannot be terminated by any methods of appeasement." With Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" becoming more actual every day, the Big Four's teamwork would be visible very soon...
...their sod huts a century from now, ancient Rumanian peasants will speak tragically of the things their fathers told them of the frightful year 1940. First there had been the war between the peoples of the West, each striving to pull Rumania into the struggle on its side. Then the Teutons and the Slavs had all but stripped Rumania down to its small ancient provinces, despoiling it of its gains from the older war. The King fled for his life and the Teuton people came to occupy what was left of the country. Then the earth itself writhed and trembled...
...Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with excitement, Egyptians carried Saleh Younes Pasha out of the royal train to a station sitting room, where he rapidly grew weaker and died...
...distributed free for exhibition in the movie theatres to be built at all training camps. Major Nathan Levinson of the Signal Corps Reserve put it more bluntly, growled: "Nobody's going to make a dime out of this, and if they think they are, they'd better pull their horns in right...