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Last week rumors flew again of Nazi troop concentrations against Iceland in northern Norway. Some observers saw the pattern for invasion in the attack on Crete. Should the Nazis hazard it. they would find Iceland twelve times as large, and with a population three times as small as Crete-much better suited to parachute and glider tactics. But Iceland lies at least five times as far from nearest Nazi bases as Crete from the mainland of Greece. Since last May, when Canadian troops landed to guard armyless, navyless Iceland, the British have put, according to some reports...
...Unequivocal opposition to press censorship in any form, with this exception: Press cooperation in maintaining secrecy of a limited list of truly vital technical secrets and of troop, ship, and plane movements and other information of strictly military value so long as they are secret in fact...
...Good Neighbors shows (10:30 p.m. Thursday, E.D.S.T.) threw in Dr. Frank Black and his 60-piece orchestra, a troop of some 20 actors and the gilt-edged intonings of Announcer Milton Cross. It will broadcast from Manhattan with appropriate guest diplomats on duty in Washington, and every week the program will be tailored to a different Latin-American country...
...British were beating the Iraqi. With reinforcements newly arrived at Basra they were breaking up troop concentrations, destroying the Iraq Air Force. But the British had not yet pacified the country-and Iraq's Defense Minister Naci Cevket was in Ankara, waiting to have a word with Franz von Papen...
...northern Greece in five spearheads. Three divisions of Greeks defended that area, and it was intended that they should delay the Germans as much as possible, then retire in order behind Salonika to the main Anglo-Greek force. This plan was disrupted by Yugoslav weakness, which was due to troop dispositions which had been made for political rather than military reasons by the pre-coup, pro-German Government of Dragisha Cvetkovitch...