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...World War II, the product of Franz Halder's planning has always been a thunderbolt-the lightning that withered Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, the shaft that staggered Russia last year. Thunderbolts should strike on time. Hitler's time in Russia-his only time-is now. The world has a right to expect something terrific. If it should not strike, if it should not be terrific, then history will also be made. For then the Nazi war machine is in trouble and its days of glory are numbered...
...year and a half ago OPM desperately called in all U.S. firms who might be able to manufacture jewels, urged them to have a try at it. For the Nazis had overrun Holland and France, bottled up Switzerland -the countries whence the U.S. formerly imported nearly all its synthetic jewels (as many as 100,000,000 a year). Only one company, Union Carbide & Carbon, volunteered to make synthetics. It alone produced the great volumes of hydrogen and oxygen which are essential in making them...
Renner's Europe consists of nine great states: a commonwealth of Great Britain and Holland, a Fennoscandic Union (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...
Hale, G. C., Jr.; Hall, W. P.; Hamlen, W. T.; Harding, E. H.; Hoeprich, P. D.; Holland, D. T.; Houston, P. K., Jr.; Hubbell...
This was not the first time Henri Honoré Giraud had escaped from the Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...