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...Blackest Nazis. Behind its imposing, heavily guarded barricade are seven sick and lonely men, the only inmates. But they are seven of the blackest Nazis still alive: Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's closest confidants; Karl Doenitz, once commander of the German navy; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former proconsul of Czechoslovakia; Albert Speer, Hitler's production genius; Walter Funk, director of Nazi finances; Baldur von Schirach, leader-hero of Nazi youth; and ex-Admiral Erich Raeder...
...with the support of a large group of townsmen. Also helping were the president of Radcliffe, Smith, and Columbia. As one of the countless college catalogues claims, "enthusiasm grew by leaps and bounds." This statement is verified by the fact that when Bennington started classes in 1932 during the blackest depths of the depression, fund-raising was a job fit only for blackmailers...
...plans for building a 65,000-ton supercarrier, which it hoped would put naval aviation into the strategic bombing business. In 1949 the "revolt of the admirals" broke out, a no-holds-barred attack on the Air Force and its 6-36 which developed-on all sides-into the blackest chapter of modern U.S. military history. In the brawling, Hoyt Vandenberg kept his voice low. In his testimony to a congressional committee, he doggedly stated the simple facts: "The only military threat to the security of the U.S. ... comes from the Soviet Union," and the only force that could counterattack...
Next day, Harry Truman sought to calm them as he boarded the Independence. "I don't want any great fuss made about this situation," he said. "There is nothing wrong." But something was wrong. Harry Truman came away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
...Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since Oct. 1): 131 Reds killed, 19 captured. But it is uphill work, against a crafty, concealed enemy. This week the influential, conservative Singapore Straits Times, reporting on "the blackest of black weeks," urged that 25,000 British Commonwealth troops be shifted from Korea to Malaya...