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...then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister, its staff had already become Ottawa's second-largest (only the U.S. Embassy staff is bigger...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest our hopes exclusively on our own military strength, for there is nothing else to hope...
...fact that production of shipping and some other items is still up to schedule does not help the Ground Forces.* But any slump in the production of small arms, heavy artillery, vehicles, etc. is vitally important to them. For its barest needs the Army requires between May and December a 20% increase in railway equipment and Army boat production. Against the day when the desperate enemy may decide to use poison gas, the Army needs a two-thirds increase in the production of gas masks and poison gas. It needs a 95% increase in radar equipment production...
...contrary, if the declarer prefers to assume that hearts will break rather than spades, the hand plays itself for seven against any defense and with only the barest amount of guidance...
...from 16 to 65, women between 17 and 45 were ordered to register for compulsory labor service. Civilian consumer goods were cut down to the barest necessary minimum. Community kitchens were planned to replace domestic help. Said the SS newspaper Schwarze Korps: "The homeland is to live only in order to work...