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Nearly everybody hoped that the Yalta Conference had cut the fuse from that charge of political high explosive, the Free Germany Committee. But last week it was fizzing and sputtering again-this time in the Soviet press. Cried Moscow's War & the Working Class: the report that Russia intended to use the Free Germany Committee to create a pro-Russian German state was a "myth" based on "poisoned rumors." "From nothing has been erected a structure of lies. . . . The Soviet Union, much more than any other country . . . is anxious to obtain a solution . . . making . . . a revival of German aggression...
When the great Jap campaign got up full steam in October, Gleason's band was ready to tamp in charges, fuse them and blow. Waiting until the last possible moment before the enemy advance, Gleason finally started the destruction...
...Jockey Johnston, carrying explosives in sacks, worked for 24 hours along a river bank, never knowing for sure how near the Japs were. One after another they destroyed the bridges along their way. By the time they reached the last bridge they had only four inches of fuse left. They tamped in the charge, lit the fuse and galloped off with the uproar in their ears and debris raining around them...
...month a balloon floated silently in across Cape Flattery on Washington's rainswept northern coast. The balloon, made of shellacked, parchment-like paper and bearing the rising sun of Japan, was a sizable object (33½ ft. in diameter) but nobody saw it, apparently. Eventually a 70-ft. fuse, connected to a small incendiary bomb on the inflammable paper bag, sputtered-and went out. The balloon drifted on across the Northwest...
...penetrates deeper, causing more damage at the crater site, less damage and injury from blast and flying glass in the vicinity. Mr. Churchill implied that this effect was intentional. But the speed of the rocket's fall is so great that the most sensitive impact fuse would probably not be able to explode the warhead above ground...