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...Moscow, 2) he was in Moscow, 3) he had had a heart attack. But Mao's propagandists spoke up for him. They claimed huge economic gains in the year of Axis solidarity: coal extraction up 30%, steel production above China's prewar 1936 level. They added an unconsciously ironical boast: "The poor Chinese masses today are able to enjoy a similar kind of cultural life as that of the Soviet Union...
...rubber tires, an all-crop harvester that outsold every other combine, a huge 20-ton crawler tractor, and during World War II made high-speed crawler prime movers for the Army. Since the end of the war, the tractor division's sales have been five times the best prewar years. The division now does 60% of the company's business...
Died. Fritz Thyssen, 77, one of Germany's top prewar industrialists, "the man who made Hitler"; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
Bayreuth's case: some of Wagner's Third Reich worshipers (most notable: Adolf Hitler) "made him a Nazi-he was not." The prewar boss of the festival, Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred, mother of Wieland and Wolfgang, once an ardent Nazi, has retired from all connection with festival affairs in illustration of the point. Moreover, the new Bayreuth is stressing the fact that Wagner admired the U.S. He wrote a grand march for Philadelphia's celebration of the looth anniversary of independence (he was paid $5,000 for it*), planned to visit the U.S. before...
Freedom? The first two volumes, The Age of Reason and The Reprieve, took a rough sample of prewar French society-a painter, a Communist, a professor, a prostitute, a homosexual, a student, and so on-and presented episodes of their case histories in the months before the war. Volume III, Troubled Sleep, carries the same characters through the first few weeks after the fall of France...