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Grey-haired, twitchy-fingered Austin Cross, Parliamentary reporter of the Montreal Star, is a student of capital cities. He has visited Washington and the 48 U.S. State capitals (reserving Bismarck, N.Dak. for last), the ten Provincial capitals of Canada. But the capital he knows best is Ottawa, and last week he had Canadians atwitter with a rollicking book about the Ottawa scene...
Arnim is unlike most of the Wehr-macht's professional military men in that he comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...
...most, the German fleet in Norway consists of the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck, which was destroyed on its long dash out of Bergen two years ago; the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, repaired after their successful run through the Channel last year; the pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Lützow; two 10,000-ton cruisers of the Hipper class; and perhaps ten destroyers...
...Move. Not since its covering action in the Guadalcanal offensive had the U.S. Navy seen action in the South Pacific. In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), unassisted Army air power had finished off 22 Jap ships. The Navy had not been heard from, but last week A.P. Correspondent J. Norman Lodge, attached to Admiral William F. Halsey's South Pacific Command, sent this dispatch through naval censorship...
Fortnight after the Japs lost 22 ships in the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), the Japanese Government announced by radio that all Japanese soldiers would be taught how to swim. "The scheme has been prompted," said Tokyo Radio, "by the fact that war operations in Greater East Asia are closely connected with water...