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...sincere wish of the new Polish Government [is] that relations with Russia be re-established." But in his first official interview he let drop a remark which must have ruffled Russia anew. Instead of ignoring a correspondent's question asking whether Poland favored the restoration of the Baltic States, Mikolajczyk replied: "I can say that no Pole could remain indifferent to the aspirations of any country seeking independence...
...Latest product of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda factory is the much-advertised Britain." German Trained military seals "offensive-defensive in Berlin against talk freely about it to neutral correspondents and plenty is permitted to "leak" across Axis borders. Axis troops and small ships have been moved ostentatiously from Baltic to North Sea coasts. Hundreds of high-speed boats, some driven by airscrews, are reported concentrated in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Holland is said to be full of SS troops. U-boats are being concentrated in Danish ports...
...Conquest of Norway would be an essential preliminary to landings which would have a much more direct effect on the enemy: in Denmark, and perhaps then on the Baltic coast of Germany, at a point within 100 miles of Berlin itself. Strongly defended Copenhagen would have to be taken before substantial forces could be landed on the Baltic coasts. But Germany could concentrate perhaps 40 divisions, would have the advantage in the early defense of the narrow Baltic approaches. "Until the German divisions in Germany are drawn off elsewhere [by other invasions or the Russian campaign], an invasion of Denmark...
...north, where great forces massed on both sides of the front last week, a successful drive to clean the Germans out of the Leningrad area would open the way to the Baltic States. If it succeeded, this operation would enable the Russian Air Force to plaster eastern Germany as heavily as the Rhineland was being punished by the R.A.F...
...sweep and tempo of Allied air attacks on Axis Europe increased last week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...