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...works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless, the British faced a serious tactical disadvantage if Germany pushed on to the Channel. Then the R. A. F., with its bombers in Britain, would still have to keep its pursuit planes in France, to protect...
...gala program included a buffet luncheon, an afternoon celebration in honor of the University, and an evening of entertainment with a Crimson motif. In addition the Dodgem, nerve-wracking midway attraction in which one uses a little car to inflict damage on one's best friends, was opened free of charge all day to all Harvard men through the kindness of a member of the class...
...were endangered. And last week the Allies' chief spokesman to neutrals, Winston Churchill, phrased Britain's new policy toward Norway and others thus artfully: "When we are asked to take as a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give all the advantage to the aggressor and inflict all the disadvantages upon the defenders of freedom, I recall a saying of the late Lord Balfour: 'This is a singularly ill-contrived world, but not so ill-contrived as that...
...German advance was no bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken...
Adolf Hitler spent scarcely three hours in his newest territory, but he had time to deliver a speech in which he said: "What we can expect from the other world we know. We do not have the intention to inflict suffering on this other world; however, the sufferings that it inflicted on us we had to make good again and I believe that in essentials we have already arrived at the conclusion of this unique restitution...