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There were several reasons for this uneasiness: 1) World War II had come nearer the U. S. than ever before; 2) flounderings, charges and admissions of inefficiency in London (see p. 54); 3) confusing, conflicting statements by U. S. naval and military men about plane production capacities, aircraft effectiveness, general efficiency of U- S. defense. Columnist Hugh Johnson put the doubts bluntly, blaming Commander in Chief Roosevelt and concluding: "It is better to say this now than later, when we may be staring full into the fire that England faces...
...Berlin, Realmleader Hitler took the first steps towards adding Nordic Norway to his Reich, thereby approaching slightly nearer his Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter...
...ailing beauty whose serious heart condition was aggravated by a first-glance passion for an escaped murderer (William Powell). This time the tragedy of hapless love is played out against the heartless magnificence of a trans-Pacific luxury liner every throb of whose propeller carries George Brent nearer death by hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent spends his time trying to make a getaway with the help of Binnie Barnes. Pat O'Brien (a detective) makes tough faces, Frank McHugh makes...
With the determination of the Allies to purge Scandinavia of the German terror clearly demonstrated, Sweden was perhaps nearer war, but less in dread of it. By waiting she had probably served Norway as well as herself better than by going in too soon. And having seen what happened to the Norse and the Danes will make her a better fighter if war does come. For even to the war-shunning Swedes, death is better than vassalage...
...other Nazi force driving northward up the Oester Valley nearer the Swedish border, appeared to be encountering fierce and stubborn opposition from reinforced British and Norwegian forces...