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...street in suburban Puteaux a steel cable, taut from curb to curb, overturned a car full of Nazi soldiers, injuring several. While Parisians waited tensely for Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
Here the islands were little bunkers, the larger units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress to woods. Camouflaged tractors stood ready to haul off artillery in case of retreat. The bigger bins bristled with antiaircraft, the smaller were draped with nets and foliage to hide them from the air. Into this system the Russians crowded something like 60 divisions. The Germans went after them with...
Last week, also, Fight for Freedom, Inc., U.S. immediate-intervention group, announced that underground German sources had sent it news of another forthcoming German peace campaign. Adolf Hitler would become "ill" and possibly "resign" -to make things easier for Winston Churchill, who has vowed not to negotiate with Nazi leaders. Then the German High Command would make proposals...
Public assassinations of statesmen and kings (probably with the connivance of the police); weird disappearances; bloody purges; sudden emergence of strange characters from underground struggles in Europe's political depths; treason in the highest places; deserters running from all sides to all camps - in the ten years before World War II these curiosa were not merely foretastes of war and the collapse of nations. They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning...
Other skirmishes in the underground battle for the Hemisphere: ^ To the Government of Mexico, Germany sent a politely threatening note, suggesting that Mexico "reject" the new U.S. export ban on business houses giving financial support to the Nazis. Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla bluntly retorted that the note was "imperious and unacceptable...