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...arrival in France of 55 Leader Heinrich Himmler and his dreaded Gestapo agents behind Adolf Hitler's armed legions set thousands of Europe's wearied refugees and exiles on the march once again. Long the traditional sanctuary of the hunted, defeated and homeless, France had suddenly become a huge trap for hordes of domestic and foreign anti-Nazis...
...Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
Frankly amorous waxed Das Schwarze Korps, newspaper of Heinrich Himmler's Elite Guard. The paper invited the U. S. to join the "new strong powers," presumably sit by while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz...
Last week the Nazi Party's poet Heinrich Anacker, was credited with the words, Composer Niel with the music, of a new official song intended to inspire the troops for what was apparently to happen next. Title: We're Marching Into France. Words...
...compete with the automobile, air transport needs a machine that takes off straight up, lands straight down, remains under control at any speed or no speed. Beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, air designers have tinkered with vertical-lift machines. They wound up definitely nowhere until famed German Designer Heinrich Focke built a practical helicopter that is said to be working with German troops...