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...cer in Charge of the NTS (Communications) addressed the last graduation exercises of an entire class. In the new class since some men with specialized future assignments will leave in two or three months, this will be impossible. Prominently among these specialized groups is the large number who will leave after only three months for the amphibious forces training school...
...plan is to send the American letters to Russians with similar interests - a gro cer's letter to a grocer, a mechanic's to his Soviet counterpart, and so on. Brief mention of the campaign in the Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife brought thousands of cheerful notes from U.S. farmers' wives, letters full of feeling for the good earth, and of high regard for Russian peasants...
...shall decide some time in 1943 or 1944," he said, "whether to plant the seeds of World War III. That war will be cer tain if we allow Prussia to rearm either materially or psychologically. That war will be probable in case we double-cross Russia. . . . Unless the Western democracies and Russia come to a satisfactory understanding before the war ends, I very much fear that World War III will be inevitable...
...there are any troops, they are to guard the Rumanian oil wells against an attack by the British. . . ." Nor were the dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking...
Disruptions. Death, though the worst, was not the only civilian hazard. When the poor lost their homes, they lost every thing. When factories were bombed they lost next to everything - their jobs. Cer tain occupations, such as dancing in cho ruses and picking up men on street corners, were completely bombed out. Pub owners lost most of their business. Luxury shops did no selling. Crime, or at least its detection, took a holiday: for the first time in the memory of living men the Bow Street Police Court booked no charges for a whole...