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Deprived of French citizenship was Alexis Léger ("greatest living diplomat"), onetime Permanent Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, reputedly the "brains" behind French foreign policy from 1933 until ousted by Reynaud in May 1940. His fame as a surrealist poet was also in eclipse because surrealism is frowned upon in the stern New Order...
Editor Segerstedt does not trust Ger many's reckoning of air losses over Britain, accepts British estimates as more accurate. Said he bitterly, one day last fortnight: "Any reproduction of British reports vio lates neutrality, as German propaganda sees it." Next day he added: "When a people like the British . . . fight for every thing which they consider holy, their resistance cannot be broken by a few bombing raids. . . . They will fight, if they must, among heaps of ruins. They will fight with the certainty that final victory is theirs...
...sight altitudes. According to British claims, the ratio of German craft shot down to British craft lost fell lower than two-to-one (25-10-15) during the week, then rose again toward week's end to 63-10-22 and 85-10-37 as the Ger mans became more numerous on bright days with scattered clouds...
...lugubrious speech regretting that concerts must end and hoping "that we shall soon meet again," last week extended a Promenade Concert (no seats) into an all-night show while German bombers ranged overhead. After the regular program (which, significantly, was devoted entirely to the works of that most Ger man of the Germans, Richard Wagner), Sir Henry led the audience in community singing; then members of the orchestra did solos until they ran out of numbers; finally musicians from the audience took over the stage. Among those who stayed on was that inveterate concertgoer Ambassador Joe Kennedy...
After the conquest of Norway, Ger many planned to sweep the whole dynasty of King Haakon from the throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald...