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...beginning of the exhibit is a quotation from General Oberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, former chief of the German General Staff: "the Nation with the best photographic interpretation will win the next war." The following posters trace the three phases of photographic interpretation in action, and include copies of reconnaissance reports on Japanese island fortifications, and pictures of enemy, installations from the Navy's operational files...
Fats are essential in the human diet, but butter is "the luxury fat," and the attitude of each Great Power on the issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
...weighing Eden-on-butter against Göring-on-butter, neutral observers did not forget that the British Captain consistently weighs about 152 lb., while the German General-Oberst has dieted down in recent months some 25 lb. to about...
...splendiferous arrival in Rome was made last week by Ministerpräsident General-Oberst. In stature Mussolini is definitely a small man and Italians were surprised that Göring did not turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed...
...automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave. It was charged that he sold his secrets to a mysterious German known as Otto Waldemar Obst. Major Shapcott pointed out that Obst sounds like Oberst which means Colonel. (That Obst means "fruit" was not brought for-ward.) For these secrets it was charged that Baillie-Stewart received two letters signed "Marie Louise," one containing ten ?5 notes, the other four ?10 notes...