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...recently made wholesale arrests of former Norse military men, fumed impotently over knowledge that the best military brains were already in London with the Free Government-in-Exile, there to plot further Commando raids. In Stavanger eleven Norwegians were executed, including Carl Oftedal, a doctor,Thomas Fjermestad, a bookkeeper, Georg Fjellberg, a smith. Said Free Norway's crack little U.S. news service, which has uncannily accurate underground contacts with the homeland: "[The charges are] believed to be espionage and sabotage...
...been in keeping herself and the rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra were assessed 1? each to make up his 25?. Favorite conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed...
...Germans produced for the foreign press Georg, only son of Foreign Commissar Molotov, as proof that Foreign Commissar Molotov was lying. Georg, the spokesman pointed out, was not starved; he had two hands, two eyes and a sound stomach; he possessed honor intact and was not naked...
When General Georg Thomas began in 1935 to form the War Economy Board, Dr. Todt was called in to plan the engineering side of the conquests to come. With Germanic thoroughness he improvised his Economic Mobile Units to salvage anything from an outhouse to a mine in the wake of the armies...
...Working with the bulk of the German Army, which kills or imprisons the enemy physically, are the military Economic Mobile Units, which kill or imprison him materially and financially. These dashing arms of the service are largely the creation of Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country...