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...Berlin, Realmleader Hitler took the first steps towards adding Nordic Norway to his Reich, thereby approaching slightly nearer his Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter...
...away to the Serbian mountains, where, as police officials remarked cryptically, "even an airplane cannot land." The signature of Prince Paul's onetime right-hand man was found on papers which gave 50 German agents permission to "prospect for oil" along the fortified frontier between Yugoslavia and the Reich...
Rumania. Following a week of tough talk, King Carol weakened and came to terms with Germany's tougher trade negotiator Dr. Karl Clodius. In return for promises of "huge quantities of munitions and squadrons of airplanes," Rumania amended her trade treaty with the Reich and agreed to deplete her own reserves in order to deliver the $8,000,000 worth of wheat ordered by Dr. Clodius a few days before an export embargo was declared. Under Allied pressure, Rumania refused to increase her monthly oil shipments of 130,000 tons to Germany or to re-evaluate her currency...
...regard to a German campaign into the Balkans, he explained that such an action is not indicated for the moment unless the Italians join the Reich...
...French believed the nerves of Nazi statesmen had cracked, plunging the Reich into a course of naval and military recklessness. "They reverse their policy of not extending the conflict and extend it precisely into the field where we are immensely superior-into the sea-because they know they are cornered," exulted Premier Reynaud...