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...almost half, their industrial output by two-thirds, their gold and foreign exchange reserves by 100%. Thousands of European firms have merged to take advantage of the market of 180 million that the European Economic Community has created, sending Volkswagens to Belgium, French cheese to Munich, Chianti to Holland, Dutch chocolate to Milan, in a great, borderless swirl of what were once national products...
Complaining that the Administration was "trying to silence its critics," McGovern patronizingly absolved Westmoreland of blame, "because he is obviously doing exactly what he is told to do by his Commander in Chief." Florida Democrat Spessard Holland, one of the few non-doves on the floor during McGovern's tirade, took exception to that remark. "The Senator from Florida," said Holland, "does not think that General Westmoreland is a Charlie McCarthy, to come over here and tell the people of this country what someone else wants them to hear...
Would you believe: That during World War II the Allies were warned weeks in advance of the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway and Denmark? That Stalin received a verbatim plan of "Operation Barbarossa"-the crushing German push into Russia-more than a month before it happened? And that nobody in Moscow or The Hague or Whitehall or Washington did anything about those warnings...
...front on the foredeck will be Dan Burnes, Jim Notman, and John Ballard, while seniors Kinny Holland and Peter Robbins and sophomore Franz Schneider will help Cunningham below deck...
...always complicated by the expertness with which ODESSA-the Nazi escape apparatus set up and financed by the SS-slipped fugitives out of Europe after the war. One who did not go far was Erich Rajakowitsch, who in 1942 headed Eichmann's Section IV B4 ("death transports") in Holland: Wiesenthal finally found "Raja" in Italy, where he was heading a firm that traded profitably in oil pipelines and engines with the East bloc. Sentenced in Vienna to 2½ years, Raja was quietly released six months later...