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...came they expected it from Dutch and Belgian ports taken fortnight ago, from Norwegian beachheads taken in April, and perhaps from Eire, where beachheads might be established with the quisling connivance of the Irish Republican Army. Experts expected landing parties to concentrate on the southeast lowlands of England-Kent, the Thames valley, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk-with diversions in the Scottish lowlands and in Wales, for the invasion's main target would be the munitions-making Midlands. This plan has been openly recommended by Ewald Banse, professor of military science at Brunswick Technological Institute, whose writings have great weight...
...cover Germany's surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
Byliners. Only since the Norwegian invasion have PK men been given bylines in the German press. Crack reporters of the campaigns around Trondheim, Andalsnes. and Hamar were Horst Lehmann (correspondent for Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter, Goebbels' Der Angriff), Kurt Stolzenberg, Fritz Dettmann, Walter Möller...
Died. Anders Undset-Svarstad, 26, son of Norwegian Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Sigrid Undset; defending his country; somewhere in Norway...
Churchill made no great oration, but his was an honest exposition of the Norwegian failure and an earnest plea for national unity. Thunderous cheers, the attention given to his every syllable, his own confident manner proved that Winston Churchill had not underestimated his ability to take blame and get away with it. In the 50 minutes that he spoke he demonstrated also that he was the one man present who commanded the respect of a vast majority of the House. As Big Ben struck the hour of n, he called for a vote of confidence on the question of adjournment...