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...arguments for vast fleets of cargo planes and troop transports are unanswerable. The only questions are: How many? How soon? What types...
...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
Japan is still at India's door. The R.A.F. sharply reminded India's sahibs and indifferent millions of this fact last week. A communiqué reported that in 46 days R.A.F. planes had dropped 100 tons of bombs on Japanese troop and supply concentrations moving into northern Burma, near the mountainous but by no means inpregnable,* border of India...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...