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Wherever he was, Admiral King was in dangerous waters. If there was any doubt about the danger, the Nazis' Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in Berlin removed it when he defied Ernie King's fleet to pass from patrol to all-out convoy, and said: "Nobody can expect a German warship to look on while an American warship communicates the position of a German man-of-war to the British Admiralty. Such procedure must be regarded...
...siding under the shadow of a Balkan mountain on whose crest anti-aircraft units kept constant vigil, was set as usual for Adolf Hitler's morning conference with his advisers. Assembled in the car were all the biggest of the bigs: Göoring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Himmler, Hess (see cut). They were gathered together to congratulate Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday...
...send many of her ships, including destroyers, to the Mediterranean where they are not useful in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Germans took advantage of this situation, risking their fastest surface ships in commerce raiding. Last week the German radio declared that Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (rhymes with raider) had gone to Brest and pronounced the Scharn-horst and Gneisenau, which the British had had nearly three weeks to bomb, "ready for renewed service in the Battle of the Atlantic...
...Germans' "radical military solution" of the Mediterranean problem was apparently in its preliminary stages in the Balkans. Day after it had been announced that Germany's Naval Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder went to the Italian Alps to reassure Italy's Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Benito Mussolini's paper Il Popolo d'Italia promised that "something very big" was coming up. The British indicated that they were giving the problem some thought...
...Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer paid a visit to Benito Mussolini (see col. 3), which caused a bright Englishman to observe that he had never before heard of rats boarding a sinking ship. At Merano, in northern Italy, Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conferred with Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Italian Chief of Naval Staff, about the sea war against Britain in the Mediterranean...