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Disparities. A friendship pact in 1941 marked a new and closer liaison between Portugal and Spain. Since then frequent conferences between Franco and Salazar may have led to military understandings. Present at most of them has been Spain's gadabout Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer. But Portugal, besides relying on British sea power for protection of colonies in Africa, India and the South Seas, has had friendship and trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against...
Plot. What these men discussed the Nazis would have given tanks to know. Fearing that closer liaison would result in increased United Nations military action against the Reich, the Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
...least 80 Dutch patriots have had their heads chopped off during the past month for "communicating with the British" in a cross-Channel liaison that has increased, rather than diminished, in the two years The Netherlands have been under Nazi control...
Added headaches for the harried Training Command are: 1) a shortage of flight instructors; 2) a tardy start on a campaign for glider pilots; 3) a growing need of liaison and scout pilots by the ground forces (infantry, artillery, tank outfits...
Goal: to supply 20,000 reservists to the Navy, 6,500 instructors, an unspecified number of glider and liaison pilots to the Army. But the overmastering, overall fact about the U.S. airplane program is that the U.S. is woefully short of pilots-measured against planes-and will be woefully short for months to come...