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...often get to the White House-is a more intimate confidant. George Allen is urbane and companionable, has a fund of funny stories which Harry Truman likes to hear. While others may be busy with official chores, ever-ready George Allen is always at the President's beck & call. When Harry Truman takes an afternoon dip in the White House pool, Allen usually splashes around with...
Publishers unhappily watched retail sales boom, without benefit of ads. (Seattleites, hearing that Labor Boss Dave Beck might call a strike of store clerks, did their Christmas shopping early.) After three newsless weeks, the thing people missed most, it appeared, was the latest on Dick Tracy v. Itchy...
...MYRL E. BECK...
Under the Tsars, Poland saw some horrible pogroms, and, later, the Beck regime was also openly antiSemitic. To this residue of racist poison, during the German occupation, the Nazis added their own anti-Semitic slime. The Germans almost ended Poland's Jewish problem by killing nearly all the Jews. Of 3,500,000 prewar Polish Jews, some 300,000 survive. Most of them are still in Russia, Germany or elsewhere outside the country. Only 80,000 of the Jews who stayed in Poland are left alive...
Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...