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Convict Hitler and eight others receive the light sentence of detention in a fortress where they have connecting rooms. During his ten-month sojourn there, Prisoner Hitler pens the 800 bombastic pages of Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). Says the warden as they part: "I too, Herr Hitler, am now a Nazi...
...book in half an hour. Unprepared for his finals, he was advised to submit a special supplementary thesis, and went to Syria to study the Crusaders' castles there?alone, on foot, in European dress. He came back four months later with sketch-plans and photographs of every medieval fortress in Syria. His thesis won him a First Class Honours degree...
...fortress-like metal refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...
...such un-policemanly behavior Felix del Cristo was dishonorably discharged last week, clapped into Atares Fortress. Four days later Major Crespo, Commandant of the Fortress, tersely announced the death of Felix del Cristo, said he had hung himself in his cell, using a sheet...
...essence of our task that we must act with speed! . . . Despair is a fortress which must be carried by storm and cannot be conquered by long siege." Putting on sham speed, the Conference adopted at once an agreement to "reserve . . . during the period of the conference . . . the execution of payments due to the powers participating." In effect this extended the European end of the Hoover Moratorium (which is to expire June 30) for as long as the delegates care to keep the Conference going...