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Less than 24 hours later, on a single-track line north of Lake Constance, a passenger and a freight train collided headon, killing 52, injuring 40. Railway officials in Markdorf and Klustern, between which towns the trains were running blamed faulty signals, were arrested nevertheless...
...revolt. Life had merely become harder. In Berlin, where last fortnight crowds appeared stunned and silent, the crowds had disappeared. The people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place. The Army had taken over the country...
...Shores. Last week as fighting began the Mediterranean again took its place as a decisive theatre of war. Unlike the Baltic, where Germans and Poles clashed headon, where battle-lines and objectives were clear, the Mediterranean was a maze of variables. It was crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French...
...German navy, consisting of four or five battleships, three "pocket" battleships, 15 cruisers and close to 100 submarines, cannot hope to engage British (or even French) headon. But its submarines can threaten Britain's food-line, and if the battleships and cruisers can scatter over the high seas before war breaks out they can do considerable damage as commerce and convoy raiders...
Last week, still Finance Chairman but never more strongly with the Opposition, Pat Harrison saluted Secretary Morgenthau's presence on Capitol Hill by issuing to the press a statement which met the Administration's monetary program headon. Said...