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...Gestapo. In the hidden strife between the Army and the Gestapo, which stands for the Nazi Party generally, the Gestapo was on top last week. The number of purged generals was reported to be 100 or more,* and though Hitler had been forced to reinstate the three biggest vons (Bock, Runstedt, Leeb) in Russia to mount his spring offensive, he had gone out of his way to decorate Elite Guard heroes. The Army cabal was quiescent. Score one for Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler took the credit...
...Thirty-five per cent of all men now registering for the draft will be rejected because of physical disabilities," Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15, Oliver Professor of Hygiene, predicted yesterday. Dr. Bock asserted that the stringent draft physical restrictions now in effect will probably be relaxed to meet the President's recent call for a vastly enlarged army...
...Bock claimed that requirements for effective participation in this war are much stricter than those in the last due to the greater complexity of today's wartime service. Psychological fitness of the selectee must be considered, as well as a better all-round physical condition, in order to be sure that the draftee can successfully meet the physical and mental rigors of military routine, he said...
...predicting the easing of physical restrictions, Dr. Bock maintained that men would be taken suffering from minor eye or body defects and certain curable diseases...
Harvard is co-operating in the national compulsory physical exercise, Dr. Bock said, and by its organization of a medical unit now in active service...