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...German Reich may still wage a long and strong defensive war, but it can achieve no more major blitzkriegs or offensives on the Russian scale. This was the conclusion that authoritative Allied observers, official and nonofficial, drew last week from evidence that two great bottlenecks are now choking the Nazi economy...
Transport. German war historians admitted that a transportation crisis was a prime reason for the failure of Germany's military effort in 1918. Today Hitler's Reich is suffering from a gradual loss in transport efficiency, a slow decline in speed of movement. Important freight is clogging in yards, on canals, in warehouses. Germany's whole military economy feels the effects...
...Berlin caught it, not once but twice on successive nights, not token-wise but in two crashing raids. For the first time in more than 14 months (except for several light raids by Russian bombers) Allied aircraft wheeled in "strong force" (meaning hundreds) over the camouflaged symbol of the Reich's indestructibility...
...have been interned at Lourdes, waiting for negotiations for their exchange to be completed. This week the State Department was advised that Germany had thrown a cordon of 55 troops around the group, was preparing to evacuate them all to Germany. Exchange negotiations were being taken over by the Reich "for its own purposes." Angrily the State Department protested this "autocratic action." Last message from the group, received two months ago, said they were bored, anxious, otherwise well...
...only a party, to win his people over to the Nazi creed: >"Russia . . . prepared her world struggle in the name of socialist states, with the support of capitalist countries, against . . . socialist Germany. >"Whatever pretext our enemies used . . . the fundamental cause was always the same: hatred against a strong German Reich . . . and their universal capitalist interests in war as such. ... All their statesmen are at the same time holders of shares of the armament industries. . . . The blood of their paid mercenaries, of even their own soldiers, produces their dividends...