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...them, the U. S. Navy plans and builds to be ready for Japan in the Pacific. Since Japan, with eight to twelve new 45,000 tonners added to its present ten modern battleships, could beat the U. S. Navy's 14, Lem Speers's story was a shock. Some wiseacres tried to explain it all on the grounds that: 1) the U. S. Senate was about to take up a $963,799,478 Naval Appropriation Bill, a further authorization for $655,000,000 in future appropriations; 2) that Mr. Speers's story did Navy friends' cause...
...risks probably did outweigh the gains. But so, perhaps, did necessity outweigh choice. Hitler could have nailed down his Swedish iron supply by sending a small shock army to Lulea after the Bothnian ice goes out next month. Perhaps he was forced into the Norwegian adventure prematurely by Allied moves. March 28, the Allied Supreme War Council decided to carry the war more sternly to the Germans, to squeeze even harder with the blockade. April 3 impetuous Winston Churchill was named British coordinator of defense. April 5 is the latest Herr Hitler could have started his first convoys toward Norway...
...King Christian's younger brother's capital, 300 miles northward, the Nazis' arrival in Oslo streets was also taken calmly by the populace. But this populace was puzzled, incredulous, as 1,500 shock-troopers, hard-looking but amiable enough, only a few of them gripping their automatic weapons, took possession of a city of 250,000 with scarcely a finger raised against them, even with a city police escort. Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News was the first outsider on the spot to figure out one of the darkest inside jobs ever perpetrated...
...population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully armed men each trip, it didn't much matter if the people found out what went on. In four busses, 200 shock troopers were sent to find King Haakon and the Royal Norwegian Government, which had fled Oslo at Tuesday's dawn. The invading high command, headed by General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, who arrived by airplane, wanted the King to recognize Nazi Quisling as Premier, succeeding Laborite Premier Johan Nygaardsvold (who used...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...