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...great push from behind Belchite went forward all week long. Objective was to reach the coast and split Catalonia off from the rest of Leftist Spain. The Rightists at latest reports had held Caspe against nine Leftist counterattacks. Leftists figured they had blocked any immediate Rightist advance via Lerida upon Barcelona, where Rightist bombers had slain over 1,000. This week Rightist artillery was pounding ahead of Rightist thrusts toward Gandesa, which is the junction point of two highways to the sea. Rightist planes were furiously bombing Tortosa and many other towns up and down the coast. As Barcelona...
...Picture my feeling of emotion!" gasped Orator Hitler, almost suffocating with joy, and U. S. listeners heard him, via short wave, broadcast a triumphant reference to his "divine commission." Benito Mussolini had already received a gushing letter Friend Hitler had dispatched by air to Rome, and now the Führer telegraphed to the Duce, "I shall never forget this...
Thus the Dictator can hope other Russian bigwigs who might want to kill him have now been made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families...
...bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were...
...Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means a one-week blare of 170,000,000 separate advertising messages via radio, magazine, billboard and newspaper aimed solely at selling used cars...