Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day, a correspondent sat SHAEF was told that the men of Flensburg had been put on a "seize and freeze" basis. Another SHAEF account said that they were under arrest. In other words, Doenitz and his henchmen faced incarceration and, possibly, punishment as war criminals. Meanwhile, at least until the Allies could find other administrators, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remained, in the eyes of defeated Germans, and to the alarm of Russia, the acknowledged governor of Germany...
Last week New York Timesman C. L. Sulzberger, who had investigated the problem in Moscow, reported from London the first coherent account of the Sinkiang situation. He also reported that Sinkiang is the epicenter of a political earthquake which may change the power geography of Asia. For Sinkiang is the keystone of the Eurasian heartland. It has common frontiers with Russian Turkestan, Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, British-dominated Tibet, China and China's Communist area around Yenan...
...plane manufacturers were hopping mad at a report that Britain was frowning on a sale of five Douglas DC-25 to the Misr (Egyptian) Airlines. Airmen heard that Britain's Minister for Civil Aviation, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Swinton, had warned the Egyptians that their blocked sterling account in London could not be tapped for U.S. airplanes...
TIME [April 30] gave a complete report on German atrocities. The account of the Erla inhumanities, however, was in error in its reference to acetate. For instance, TIME said "guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings" and . . . "in one split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno...
...said G&246ring, he asked Hitler to let him take over the collapsing Reich and negotiate a surrender to the Allies. According to" one of Hitler's stenographers, the Führer had already nominated G&246ring for his job (see FOREIGN NEWS). G&246ring's own account differed: he said that Hitler raged, condemned him to death, reprieved him when G&246ring promised to give up all his honors and titles...