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...fourth time since World War II began, Adolf Hitler summoned his Reichstag into session in the Kroll Opera House this week to hear him report on the war's progress. Though the British knew he would be there, no bombs fell on Berlin that day. The Führer was in good form. He spoke seriously, with less virulence than usual, and his tone was one of confidence. For the German people his speech was a good bucker-up, if they needed one; for foreigners it was good propaganda...
...band, a review of honor troops, toasts in champagne, a wooden platform for speechmaking, an international broadcast, armfuls of flowers, and certain other super-soldierly amenities. Each of the Nazi bosses drank a tasteful toast to the birthday man. Keitel: "Big and gigantic successes. . . ." Goring: "You, my Führer. . . ." Hess: "God protect our Führer...
Just what deity Rudolf Hess, whose job it is to protect his Führer, referred to was not specified. It could scarcely have been the God of the Orthodox Eastern Church, which was next day to celebrate its Easter, symbolic of rebirth, expressing faith in life, not an occasion of death.* It was probably not one of the deities once thought to be resident on Mt. Olympus, on whose summit German troops had planted the swastika just a few hours earlier-for the Gods of Olympus were fundamental to the ancient civilization which had invented democracy, the very thing...
...knots (the new 45,000-ton battleships will speed 33 knots or better). Whether they will be armed with the Navy's biggest guns C16 in.), or will carry 18-inchers, was a deep naval secret last week. But plain as the nose on the Führer's face was the fact that the five new warships would be far & away the biggest ever built. By the time these monsters are finished (five years), the new, enlarged locks of the Panama Canal will let them pass from ocean to ocean...
...customers or employes. But most have been thoroughly cooperative when the U. S. Government has made informal representations. Apart from patriotism, they have a reason of self-interest to seek new agents below the border: Many German agents would drop American lines like hot potatoes if the Führer ever settles his account with England...