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...commands the Canadians in World War II was a soldier in World War I, and he is determined to lead Canadians back to France. Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton says often and in many ways that his Canadian Army Overseas is a dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin. He knows where he wants to thrust the dagger. His ideas may or may not coincide with those of the Allied high command, and with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with...
...long and devious career foxy old Franz von Papen has been frequently hunted. In 1932, when he was Germany's Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen...
Then Chen's wife put down the wash basin. She pulled a dagger from the sleeve of her cotton gown and spoke quietly. She said that if she were not given her husband's head she would add to his corpse two dead bodies, hers and the officer's. The Japanese officer took the head from a basket and gave...
SEEING IS BELIEVING-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). At an English party, Vicky Fane, under a hypnotic spell, is forced to stab her husband with a rubber dagger-which changes to steel as she drives it home. Irascible Sir Henry Merrivale, interrupting the dictation of his libelous memoirs, supplies a transparently simple solution to an apparently insoluble problem. Good mental exercise and robustly amusing...
...Hitler in check. In Syria Free French and British forces stand guard over the northern approaches to Suez, which in turn guard one approach to Africa. And across two-thirds of the waist of Africa lies French Equatorial Africa, a vital link in one supply line to Egypt, a dagger pointed at Axis Libya, and a possible base for Anglo-U.S. operations along Africa's west coast...