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...starting-time limit and the necessity of finishing before another winter, General Haider and his staff had to devise a plan for crushing Russia in a few months' time-a campaign as crushing as those against Poland in 1939 and France in 1940, a campaign better than the blitz-that-failed against Russia in 1941. This had to be the greatest thunderbolt of all and it had to strike on time...
...recently by Winston Churchill] and commuted to London daily by car. Molotov's few extracurricular engagements included a visit to the King with Eden, a fighter-station visit with Churchill while operations were in progress, and a trip around London with Maisky, which was ostensibly to see the blitz damage, but during which Molotov was most interested in seeing the people on the streets, who did not recognize...
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels used to intimidate foreign statesmen by showing them movies of the Polish blitz and of the fall of France. Since those outdated smash hits, he has had no wows to offer. Recently he had to suffer the chagrin of going to the Japanese Embassy to see their supercolossal Nippon's Wild Eagle, showing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the conquest of the Philippines, Malaya, Borneo...
...German propaganda machine, perhaps remembering how the German blitz petered out, assured its people that the British could not afford to keep up their mass raids. But Air Marshal Harris thinks differently. By coincidence-or was it coincidence?-Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold of the U.S. Army Air Forces was in London during these raids. With the accretion of U.S. planes flown by U.S. crews, Air Marshal Harris can increase the intensity of his raids. Though it would probably take a while to repeat often such raids as those on Cologne and Essen, an R.A.F. spokesman said last week...
...Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...