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...Fight or Flee? The Germans could not seem to make up their minds whether they would defend Rome or not. A Berlin radio announcement that Rome would positively be defended was contradicted by Adolf Hitler's own newspaper. The Volkischer Beobachter declared-perhaps to prepare the home front for more bad news -that the retreat would continue to North Italy. The Vichy radio bleated: "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the conduct of the war except the prestige.. . . The German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only...
Died. Hans Lachmann-Mosse, 59, former publisher of the late, great Berliner Tageblatt, No. 1 liberal German newspaper, confiscated by the Nazis in 1933; after long illness; in Oakland, Calif. Forced by the Gestapo to flee Germany after relinquishing his publishing business, he settled in France, fled again when France was invaded...
...upward of $1 billion stolen from occupied countries, pays for espionage and sabotage, electrical equipment from Switzerland, fine steel from Sweden, cork from Portugal, rare metals such as Spam's wolfram (see p. 17). It could also buy a haven for Nazi bigwigs when & if they try to flee from defeated Germany. To stop such traffic, the Allies have done what they could to make Nazi gold not only worthless but an actual liability to those who deal in it. Announced the U.S. Treasury...
...Hospitable Deserts. When Roman civilization collapsed, gentle spirits tried to flee the almost hopeless world by becoming solitary hermits in the wastelands. Later groups of hermits gathered together for security and company in loose associations...
...Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...