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Last week Franklin Roosevelt and the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile were convinced that Nazi Germany had, not only precedent, but a blueprint for the destruction of Belgrade, pre-war Yugoslavia's capital city. Belgrade, according to Berlin, is the operations center for the German-hating, fight-loving Chetniks, Serbian guerrilla fighters. Said a terse White House statement: "The city will be surrounded by troops and exposed to bombardment by artillery and from...
...Harvard can take anything," stated the author, tongue in check, when he was questioned about the probable response here to the movie's sathe of the University. A pre-war graduate who has already celebrated his twenty-fifth reunion, the former Lampoon editor admitted that he doesn't "understand the modern Harvard man, the 1941 model. The engine and carburetor are the same," he claimed...
...influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable men as Pétain and Weygand where they wanted them. Despite the pre-war Parisian wisecrack, "Did you know that our Foreign Minister is also in the pay of the French?," many reputable friends of Bonnet still cannot believe he was a traitor. Riess claims to know better, gives the reason why: Goebbels had in his possession "a rather large" canceled check which...
...Russia has lost only about one-third of its pre-war industrial capacity. The principal losses have been the Leningrad area and the Ukraine. The Germans have nibbled at, and probably partly immobilized, Moscow's industry...
...fact that U.S. aluminum capacity will soon be six times what it was in 1939, and that one-third of it will belong to new competitors and the U.S. Government. Alcoa's own capacity will be at least 1,100,000,000 Ib. a year, instead of pre-war 327,000,000 Ib. Some 70% of its output is going into aircraft (less than 30% was so used in 1939) and Alcoa knows that won't last...