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...land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
Adolf Hitler deemed Narvik important enough, as the main outlet for Swedish iron ore, to spend one-third of his destroyers trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column...
...these things might force Sweden to fight at any time. But if none of them took place Sweden's problems were not yet over. If Allied armies gain possession of her outlet to the Atlantic through Narvik and Trondheim, the Allies are virtually certain to put severe economic pressure on Sweden to induce her to cut ore exports to Germany. If Sweden had to yield to such Allied demands, Germany, again, might attack...
...April Fool's Day, three weeks ago, BBC's German program included a phony Hitler broadcast: "America needs an outlet to the sea. I've never disputed that. . . . But in the U. S. there live national minorities cut off from their European homelands. In Chicago alone there are 324,000 Czechs ... in the well-known city of New York there are 476,000 Poles. . . . I'm very grateful to Mr. Roosevelt for his interest in European affairs: I'm proving my gratitude by declaring the German protectorate over the U. S. I shall make America...
...Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...