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After lunch we resumed our flight to Cochabamba in a Junkers tri-motor land plane. . . . The pilots and crews of the planes in which we flew were all Bolivians, and they all spoke German but not English...
...earth knew of their feelings and their fate, have been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from were those willing to play Hitler's game, for Hitler's Gauleiter of Gaul was practical, nonliberal, Italophile...
While contradictory rumors still rumbled about the misunderstanding which occurred when Henry Ford turned down a contract to build 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines, the Defense Advisory Commission's William S. Knudsen last week faced about and offered the contract to Packard Motor...
...Government." Members of the Canadian Parliament debated confiscation of the Canadian Ford plant. Officials of Ford's plant in Great Britain bought newspaper ads to advise the people that the plant was working for the Government. Members of the Defense Advisory Commission, meanwhile, began negotiations with other motor makers (notably Packard) in an effort to get the $130,000,000 Rolls-Royce order placed...
...consultants to Railroader Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp...