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...people, the foreign press has had but one peephole. Confined to the Moscow area, correspondents have long complained that distance and bureaucracy have obscured their view. Last week the Soviet Ukraine prepared to open another window. A dozen foreign newsmen would soon be invited to take up residence in Kiev...
...decision was evidently in answer to a U.S. request. Recently the State Department had asked eight Governments to allow full and impartial coverage of UNRRA's work. (UNRRA has just gone to work in the Ukraine.) Even if the Soviet censors open a branch office at Kiev, as they doubtless will, the press would welcome the Ukrainian move. A second window into Russia might not give sufficient cross-ventilation, but it would at least give a change of scenery...
...landed in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...Nazi medico was very candid. The Institute had been established after the Germans took Kiev in 1941. Its human material included schizophrenics, Jews, foreigners, gypsies. Each doctor on the staff "processed" about 100 persons per working day with injections of morphine tartrate. Explained Dr. Schuebbe: the subject showed "breathing difficulties and a shrinking of the eye pupils; the face assumed a blue color; there was sporadic breathing; then a breathing stoppage and a heart stoppage. Exitus lethalis...
...course, we, the circle of German physicians at Kiev, were aware of the importance of this job. Aside from certain devious phases of this action I still maintain that, just as one prunes a tree-by removing old, undesirable branches in the spring, so for its own interest a certain hygienical supervision of the body of a people is necessary from time to time...