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...Border. Since then the decade's two great political evangelists, Germany and Russia, have moved in, and Mexicans, familiar with only the weaknesses of democracy, were willing to heed Communist doctrine or to see the beauty of Nazi ideology and particularly Nazi financial favors. Today, while guns roar in Europe, both Nazis and Communists are solidly entrenched below the Rio Grande, and with a national election on July 7 at stake, Mexico faces a crisis...
...Germans and 460,000 Frenchmen died on the blasted hilltops of Verdun. For this 1940 war was vertical as well as horizontal. To the old curtains of shell and rifle fire were added machine guns spitting from the sky, bombs bursting suddenly upon fields and highways, the unearthly roar of airplane motors drowning even the outcries of men. Fleets of land battleships crushed walls and swept the countryside. Cataracts of fire gushed from tanks advancing like moving walls...
...people of Britain-who could hear the roar of artillery across the Channel, who were short of sugar and bacon, who patrolled their roads day & night on the lookout for parachutists-Winston Churchill at week's end made an eloquent radio speech, telling them that worse was in store for them in a war that would be fought to the end. High points...
Above the broken, fitful cheers, suddenly came a last swelling roar...
...weight and speed took the big (74-ft. wingspan) Heinkel through the top of an apartment house, well into a group of seaside villas beyond. There followed a shattering roar of gas tanks and bombs. Firemen, ambulancemen, air-raid wardens hurried to the flaming wreck. Behind them an eager, half-dressed crowd collected. Windows went...