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...There has been much musical exchange within the Axis. Titian-dyed, corseted Italian Coloratura Soprano Toti dal Monte (a onetime success in the U. S.) sang to great applause in Berlin. The Cologne Opera is touring The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy; the Frankfurt am Main Opera the Balkans. The Berlin State Opera will visit Milan and Rome this spring; the Rome Opera will visit Germany...
...with which Germany's fifth column handed over Norway, the Cabinet met to "consider the situation of foreigners in the country." On the Western Front activity increased. Artillery boomed all day long and at night patrols sought prisoners for information. French military sources reported heavy German concentrations near Frankfurt, practically said an offensive was coming. Where would it strike first? The Netherlands was most nervous. As civilians fled from frontier districts, fresh troops moved in. All Army leaves were canceled. Martial law was extended. With roads and bridges mined, trees girded with dynamite, the Dutch hoped they could give...
...flow like molten lava, glow like human flesh, Elkan was picked by the Government to carve its biggest monuments to Germany's World War I dead. Art-loving Germans trooped for miles to view the massive, grief-weighted, maternal figures he set up in the public squares of Frankfurt, Saarbrucken and Wickrath along the French frontier...
...Berliners . . . speak of Stalin as unser neues, liebes Vetterchen ('our new, dear little cousin'). In Frankfurt there was quiet amusement that Hitler's Mein Kampf has been ordered to be withheld from circulation by the public libraries there-until a new edition, with all the scurrilous references to Russia and the Bolsheviks withdrawn, is published...
Last week the Frankfurt radio station made Germany's first admission of her U-boat losses: 35. Unless work has progressed far more rapidly than is believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...