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...heard on the air in that time. It also has a "very good'' picture of the total organization of Nazi radio espionage. This picture often helps to relieve RID's biggest headache: hearing, for example, a station that it knows to be Nazi espionage headquarters in Hamburg saying "QSA-O, QSA-O" day after day, RID realizes that Hamburg is calling one of its spies and getting no reply. When Hamburg does get through to its man and starts talking, all of RID's resources go into the job of discovering the spy's wave...
General Friedrich Christiansen, 64, is chief for Holland. A World War I flying ace and no Junker, chunky, weather-beaten Christiansen is also a mariner, went back to sea after the last war and captained the liner Rio Bravo on the Hamburg-Mexico run. Later, returning to the air, he piloted Germany's Do-X flying boat, ultimately stepped in behind Göring to build up the Luftwaffe...
Said Lord Lang: "Recent attacks upon cities like Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...
After I had pushed the conversation around to Hamburg two or three times he said: "You understand I cannot talk about Germany. I am a good German and besides I wouldn't last ten minutes when I get back under German jurisdiction if I talked here about anything like bomb damage or antiwar feeling among the German people or economic conditions. You understand my position." He pulled his forefinger across his throat...
...heroism and spirit of sacrifice." Indirectly, he testified to the destruction wrought upon Germany by the night-bombers of the R.A.F. the day-bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Matter-of-factly, as though there were no point in further denial, he referred to "the ruins of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Kassel" and of "all other towns, great and small," which have been damaged. Said he: "If millions of people no longer possess anything to lose, they can only gain something...