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...Declaration on Austria was as unexpected as an earthquake. At least some of its meaning was as easy to grasp, its causes as hard to define. The Great Powers certainly meant: since Germany was not to keep Austria, her first grab, she need not expect to keep any other loot...
...Nazi regime's favor are iron control of the population, the instinct for survival, a strong and yet unbroken Army, the rich loot plundered from Europe since 1939. Yet much of that loot has been expended on war, the Army is now in retreat, the home controls cannot survive a complete military disaster...
High Stakes. Despite its huge loot, Germany has been unable to assemble adequate basic reserves. The nation has been like a gambler in an increasingly steep game, winning big sums yet compelled to throw it all back in, to meet the relentless doubling by the other players...
...Loot. In Millbury, Mass., Police Chief Fred H. Vulter announced that thieves had pried out eight manhole covers weighing 220 lb. apiece...
...TIME, Oct. 11). They had also planted time bombs in the post office and other nonmilitary buildings. By & large, they had spared Naples' art and churches, but enough damage had been done by Germans and by Allied bombs to make Romans shudder. Persistent report had the Nazis systematically looting the capital's art treasures. Northbound trains were said to be bearing plunder to the castles and villas where Göring, Himmler and lesser German collectors had stored the loot of Warsaw, Paris and Kiev...