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...Fuschl near Salzburg with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Messrs. Gigurtu and Manoilesco motored to Berghof for a talk with Herr Hitler, proceeded to Rome the same afternoon. With heavy rhetoric the Berlin radio summarized the results of the conference: "Germany today, less than ever, had reason to refrain from pointing out that the Reich is in favor of reasonable Bulgarian and Hungarian revision claims." The result of the Salzburg sales talks will not be made public until Bulgaria and Slovakia have had their turns...
...Flag Day, 15,000 Texans resolved for all help to the Allies except men & blood, applauded when the resolution's sponsor said: If this "leads to war, then we will meet that issue. ..." But when the grave faces bowed in prayer {see cut}, the refrain was: "Lead us not into war but into peace...
...ammunition factories. Of course we should be obliged to expend some of our 'wealth and resources' but I do not think that they would be "poured down the drain" if used in the defence of our liberty and our civilization. Furthermore even if we follow your advice and refrain from any intervention we would be faced, in the event of a German victory, with the necessity of expending a large amount of our "wealth and resources". We would have to turn this country into an armed camp in a state of siege and we would certainly be forced to sacrifice...
...week at Rethel, Guise, Landrecies and Le Cateau. French tanks tried to break up the advancing formations of the German tanks. Sometimes encounters became individual, each tank trying for a glancing blow to tip its opponent over. Dust, smoke and debris obscured the milling masses. Supporting airplanes had to refrain from dropping bombs lest they destroy their own machines. When the French artillerymen were set, the French tanks stayed back until French artillerymen had let go with shells. In one blasting, 20 out of 30 Nazi mastodons were shattered. The French tanks then charged through to clean up two armored...
Admitting that in his tutoring notes he has infringed on the copyrights of 13 books, Marcus Horblit, proprietor of the Fairfax Hall School, agreed yesterday to refrain from printing and selling any more of the offending notes and to turn over all existing copies to the publishers for destruction...