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...numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler had won his first naval battle. The victory was consolidated when a naval corps-1,080 marines-landed and officially occupied the area...
...Locarno Pact, which he held in such high respect, stipulated that Germany would arbitrate or conciliate any border disputes in Western Europe. After a plebiscite, Herr Hitler revised the borders of Germany to include the Saar Basin (see map)-area: 738 square miles; population: 812,000; resources: coal, iron, steel, heavy industries...
Last week, with the annexation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Herr Hit ler's word proved as bad a prophet as ever. He grabbed 32,000 square miles, population of 9,250,000, new munitions (including the Skoda works), a large shoe industry, Pilsen breweries, gold reserve...
...gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...that did not settle the matter. In the Riksdag a member named Herr Wallén (who just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...