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...southwest of Madrid the Leftists launched a furious offensive, intended if successful to cut those Rightist supply lines which run in from Portugal. At latest reports this offensive, designed to distract Generalissimo Francisco Franco from his onslaught upon Barcelona last week, had gained little...
Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Department of the U. S. S. R. for the United States...
...brought the Nazi state to a fateful consideration of whether it must now resort to inflation. In Nazi oratory the inflation of the German mark after the War by Socialists has always figured as "criminal." If this crime should have to be committed again, Nazis must try to distract German public opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident in the Kaiser's colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland...
...distract public opinion from this, Herr Henlein made a much-advertised visit to England, returned last week to announce that he had found "widespread sympathy" for all Germans in London, precipitated a free fight between Sudetendeutsch members of the Czechoslovak Parliament, who had come to hail Leader Henlein, and Czechoslovak police who did not know that these zealots who tried to break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes...
...made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan...