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...carrying the TIME front-cover jinx too far to suggest that [the Gestapo's late Reinhard] Heydrich appeared very recently...
Faced with the most challenging Government job, except for the fighting itself, OPA had laid down one clear directive : it wants no aid from spying shoppers. It will welcome complaints, but for the present, at least, there should be neither a Government nor a civilian Gestapo. Canada has miraculously managed to police its stores by volunteer groups of women, each noting down prices and violations in "Queen Elizabeth books." But the U.S. will try another tack. In Chicago, OPAdministrator Michael Mulcahy hastily discouraged women who offered to snoop...
...Germans accused the onetime people of Lidice of routine subversive activities, such as hiding arms and hoarding food. But the deadliest charge against them was that they aided and sheltered the killers of the Gestapo's hangman, Reinhard Heydrich. Besides the slaughter in Lidice, the Germans by week's end had shot 400 Czechs in reprisal for Heydrich's death. They had offered an "appropriate" reward to the informant who would identify Heydrich's executioners. They gave the informant until Thursday of this week to speak his piece; after that, anyone found in possession...
Liberal democrats got the wind up. They feared that, under pretext of driving Nazi and Japanese spies out of Latin America, the conference might set up a hemispheric Gestapo against leftists, liberals and labor,* that it might "coordinate" the right of asylum out of existence. But they counted without the U.S. delegation...
...turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin and put in solitary confinement. Grilled mercilessly about unflattering stories he had written, he was on the thin edge when the Gestapo men suddenly shook hands, told him he would be returned to Italy...