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...Middle East, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who spent last week boxing his own shadow on the sand, seemed to be building up his strength for a real drive on Suez. New concentrations of German troops were in Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria; Hermann Goring was in Italy; something was in the wind...
Visit of the Spirit. In 1939 the late German ace and parachute expert, Ernst Udet, visited Japan and inspected the Japanese Air Force. He is said to have reported to Hermann Goring that Japanese flyers, though brave and willing, were no sky-beaters. Part of the trouble was technical, part organizational. In 1940 Tomoyuki Yamashita was given his big chance, the job of reorganizing the Japanese Air Force. To his mind, the first thing to do was see how the Germans...
...move announced early this week, the FBI interned the second member of the University since the outbreak of hostilities. Anthony Hermann Chroust, doctor of Juridical Science studying at the Law School, has been taken into custoday and is now held at the East Boston Immigration Station...
This wealth consists of high-cost, low-grade ore reserves, mostly scattered throughout the West. Five years ago the U.S. sneered at the absurdity of autarchic economics when the Hermann Göring Works was built to use Germany's low-grade iron ore. The U.S. then had more rich ore than it could smelt. But in wartime every paper resource may be a real resource, and price is no object. If the U.S. is in for a long war, Ickes' adventure into autarchy may mean the difference between victory and defeat...
...upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring supports Doenitz' frequent demands for materials and money, though he is often said to oppose similar demands from Admiral Raeder. Gossip is that the porcine Marshal likes Doenitz because of quick-witted sympathy expressed one day when Herr Göring got his fat stomach caught...