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...same building, Chile's Vice President and Acting President of a fortnight. Gerónimo Méndez, was fighting, as hard a battle as the President. He was doing his best to keep the Popular Front Government together...
...Kearny was no chance encounter, said the President. It was part of a long-range Nazi plan - first to drive U.S. shipping off the seas, then to dominate the Americas. For proof, he men tioned a secret map which, he said, "I have in my possession . . . made in Ger many by Hitler's Government - by the planners of the New World Order. It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it. ... The geographical experts of Berlin . . . have divided South America into five vassal States, bringing the whole continent under...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...
...helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
...south, aimed at Marshal Budenny's remaining forces around Rostov-on-Don. They had taken Odessa (see p. 26). They still throttled Leningrad. Everywhere they were exerting hasty but terrible pressure-"the last great decisive battle of the year," Hitler had called it. Tens of thousands of Ger mans had fallen, but still the locusts came...