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Areas of Agreement. Gallantly French was Giraud when he accepted a bouquet from two schoolgirls dressed in the costumes of Alsace and Lorraine. Then, in a high-pitched voice he bitterly condemned the official German incorporation of Alsace and Lorraine into the Reich...
...bulletin from Berchtesgaden, no communique from the Reich Chancellery told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...
When they came down, they shook the earth and the walls trembled. Along Unter den Linden fountains of flame exploded. The Hedwigsdom, Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral, collapsed. Up near the Brandenburg Gate and along the Wilhelmstrasse incendiaries sprinkled the governmental quarter, where the Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...
...assured the German people that Adolf Hitler intends to strike again at the Russians this year. His armies in the north last week were acting as though they hoped only to find a line where they could stand and hold the Russians beyond the borders of the Greater Reich...
...Swedes have taken our children [for shelter during the war] and the Germans have taken our women and our country." President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest of Scandinavia, including Norway's port of Narvik. Said Ryti this week, when he was sworn in as the first President to succeed himself: "Finland longs for peace but we cannot...