Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aisne line from Abbeville to Montmedy (see map). British regiments, first arrivals of a new B. E. F., landed at Le Havre, were sent at once to this line. Attacks were launched at Abbeville and points east to recapture bridgeheads needed to stem the fresh assault which Führer Hitler & Staff were observed preparing. Indicating their lively interest in those bridgeheads, the Germans counterattacked repeatedly. All French infantry divisions, all tanks and artillery that could be spared from France's eastern border were massed and dug in below Amiens, Laon. Rethel. The brief breathing spell gained for Weygand...
...Government abated by the promise of more zip in armament preparations, Canadians were not long in finding other sources of irritation. Royal Canadian Mounted Police in No-mining, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, cracked down on the Fascist National Unity Party. In a wholesale roundup they seized Führer Adrien Arcand, seven other officials, six truckloads of pamphlets, gold-braided uniforms, membership lists. In court, wispy-mustached Newspaperman Arcand was held without bail for hearing this week...
Meanwhile the Nazi organization is Mexico's most vociferous exponent of "neutrality as in the days of Carranza."* Chief local firebrand working for Führer Dietrich is the leader of the Vanguardia Nacional, militant Adolfo León Ossorio, who once led a mob assault on the American Embassy, and 200 police had to be called out to protect the premises. He repeats his master's assurances that the U. S. plans to throw Latin America into the European war and then to annex Mexico. Against this menace the only safeguard is close cooperation with Germany...
...fourth war front, radio propaganda, anything goes. From France refugee Cinema Director Max Ophuls has been conducting a vicious, satirical aerial bombardment of Germany. Ophuls' barrage, according to Variety last week, is directed specifically for the Führer's ears. Against a background of soft music and the monotonous ticking of a metronome, a voice drones...
Reporter-in-Chief. The man who two years ago sold the idea of soldier-correspondents to the Führer is their Berlin commander: burly, affable Lieut. Colonel Hasso von Wedel. No bureaucratic propaganda official is Colonel von Wedel. A brilliant officer, he has spent 25 of his 41 years in the German Army...