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Watch on the Rhine. Lillian Hellman's potent anti-Nazi drama, which won the Critics' Circle award last year...
...last year of the 19th Century, William Sebold was born in a city near the Rhine. A region of narrow valleys and expanding industries, this section looks like the country around Pittsburgh. There William Sebold was apprenticed to a draftsman, grew up through a boyhood no more extraordinary than one spent in a hard-working manufacturing town in Western Pennsylvania before...
Before the fall of France the N.E.I. were no more cognizant of the Nazis' might than any other land on the hither side of the Rhine. When the Indies woke up they woke up with a bang and got to work immediately without any ifs, ands or buts. Their alarm clock was Hubertus J. van Mook, Director of the Department of Economic Affairs. In the summer of 1940 the U.S. woke up to the fact that available stocks of tin and rubber would not last a full normal year. Mr. van Mook had the tin and rubber...
...people at home anxiously waiting the outcome of the great battle, the Nazis pointed out that if the Russians had gone as far into Germany as the Germans have into Russia (500-600 miles), they would long since have passed Berlin and be well on their way to the Rhine...
Even before Julius Caesar's time, the Germans were pushing against their western boundaries, and although Caesar drove them across the Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann der Cherusker, who in the First Century ambushed three legions of Romans in the Teutoburg Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans...