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...were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor...
...world market has resulted in reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world division of labor. The result is the present world anarchy of tariffs, quota systems, prohibition of immigration, subsidized dumping of goods, competitive currency devaluation, armament races. For the parlous state of humanity Mises is inclined to blame the West as well as Germany. After all, he says, state interventionism in the economic process began in France and England...
...From Stockholm, TIME Correspondent John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...
Back in Cairo last week, Dr. X had one light note to record: the girl guerrillas carry so much armament "it's difficult to dance with them...
...charged, in sum, that the President's leadership in the crucial prewar years left the U.S. unprepared, either by physical armament or mental attitude...