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...army divisions: 50,000 teachers equipped with $82,500,000 worth of war material. Rumania would learn a lesson from them which she would not soon forget. "Instructors" were also reported going into Bulgaria and Hungary to teach men how to fall from the sky under parachutes and in dive bombers...
...mouth and western coast. In order further to dominate that sea, through which British supplies and reinforcements were still running last week, the Italians were preparing to hop on to Britain's Perim Island, in the narrow Straits of Bab el Mandeb. An all-out dive-bombing assault would make Perim practically untenable. This week the Italians staged their first big bombing attack on the island...
...Said the Paris-soir with an air of wisdom: "If Hitler attacks this spring, it will be a sign of either great German strength or great weakness." There was much talk about Hitler's secret weapon. But scoffers asked: "What secret weapon could he have-besides those dive bombers and tanks he used in Poland, which was a weak, unprepared country, and couldn't take it?" Colonel (Count) Radziwill, a military refugee, grew angry at this one day. Said he fiercely: ". . . It was not the tanks and bombers. . . . It was the way the Germans used them. They used...
...hopeful side, Britons argued that defenses had forced the Germans to try one tactic after another. First they tried to crush the Air Force by daylight dive-bombing attacks on airports; that failed. Then they went after communications and industries; that failed. Next they tried indiscriminate daylight mass bombings of London; that only stiffened morale. Last week they resorted to late afternoon bombings with incendiaries to light beacons for all-night mass bombings. Whether or not that was a failure remained to be seen this week. From all accounts, it seemed...
When German dive bombers sent Poland's Government scurrying to safety in Rumania, Starzynski directed the defense of the capital. Over the radio, to the accompaniment of Chopin Polonaises, he gave the world a day-by-day account of the destruction of his city. To German demands for surrender, he defiantly announced: "We are fighting to death." When the Nazis entered the battered city, they found him at his desk, still defiant. He disappeared and Berlin hinted that he had committed suicide. Like many another suicide, he turned up in Dachau Concentration Camp. The Nazis reported that Starzynski...