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...meantime the home fires in Italy burned low because Italy produces only 20% of the coal she uses, imports upwards of 10,000,000 tons a year from Germany, 6,000,000 tons of which go by barge down the Rhine to Rotterdam, thence by sea to Italy. Hauling the remaining 4,000,000 tons by train over the Alps was expensive in peacetime, is practically impossible in wartime. In sudden panic, the Ministry of Corporations in Rome removed 84 trains from service, limited industries to 80% of the coal they used last year, provided coal coupons for individuals...
Switzerland. In a hotel in Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner...
Somewhere on the Rhine, the Germans were reported massing pontoon bridges. The German people, remembering Hitler's mystical faith in March,* stirred excitedly, confidently expecting a vast Nazi offensive to begin soon. Some even named the day: March...
...While we were fighting, I was working with the bureau of aircraft production in Washington," Professor Marks reflected. My associates and I were planning a tank that would run under the Rhine and come up the other bank. We were also working on a machine gun that would five ten times faster than any before...
...Sacrifiés"-those who die first-is the French name for such troops, who must watch for and delay an enemy advance until fortress troops behind them can bring artillery into action. On the western half of the Rhine-Moselle sector, German patrols became larger and more aggressive, attacking by day as well as by night. Mischance brought to one French contingent more casualties than had been suffered in a single fight since mid-October. Two truckloads of "sacrifiés," going forward to relieve their comrades, took the wrong road and drove into the German lines. Hidden machine...