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...biggest battle in the biggest campaign in the biggest war in the history of man was joined last week. The Germans thought, prematurely, that they had won all three. "The campaign in the East is decided," said Hitler's Little Sir Echo as he set about explaining to the foreign press how and why Hitler thought they had won. Hitler's Little Sir Echo is his Press Chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich. As he stood in the palatial auditorium of the Propaganda Ministry, in front of a Russian map three times his own height, the suave, bright-faced unraveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Moscow's Fate, Not Man's | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...hundred and one booming salutes split the morning: one for each year of the dynasty and one more. As their echo died away, promptly at 8 o'clock one morning last week, the Raja and Ranee of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke & Lady Brooke, left the great ghost-haunted palace from which they had ruled for 24 years, proceeded with guard of honor to the Government offices. There they witnessed the ceremonies that put an end to the absolute rule which the House of the White Rajas of Sarawak had exercised over half a million brown-skinned subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of Absolutism | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...American Legion struck Isolationism a ruinous blow last week-a ponderous, powerhouse, meat-ax crusher. The repercussions of the Legion's action in its 23rd annual convention would echo for many months in Congress, the press, the homes of U.S. citizens. In convention at Milwaukee the Legion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Legion Strikes A Blow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

This was a job for pros. The R.A.F., which has for at least six months been ferrying planes from Freetown to Cairo, has lost about 20% of its planes for lack of the gadgets and getup necessary for steady, lossless shuttling. It was an echo of the 1934 U.S. airmail fiasco; the U.S. Army just could not handle the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Pan Am Stretches | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Like a cry for help and its echo from a chasm were statements of the two top U.S. defense officials last week. OPM's William Knudsen in Manhattan said that present defense output of $9 billions annually must be increased to at least $20 billions by next summer. OPACS' Leon Henderson in Washington gloomed, "Soon there will be 2,000,000 more unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Man's Clinic | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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