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...young woman who pleaded to be left one sack of potatoes after all the food in her house had been requisitioned, a German officer said politely: "I am sorry, but you must realize there are at present twice as many Greeks as we need here. Half must die. The rich shall become poor and the poor shall die. That is our policy, and I am unable to make an exception in your case...
...Reds were in a bag, the Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...
These and other details of the New Order's Plünderpraxis (sack technique) were corroborated last week in Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three...
Last week his Ukraine strategy became apparent. It was his aim to encircle the Russian defenders and contain them in the great geographical sack defined by the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers and the Black Sea; there to cut them up. Wrote authoritative Dienstaus Deutschland of this ambitious undertaking: "The size of the encircled area or the time required to liquidate it is not important. What counts is that the enemy is grabbed; he can't retreat and he is destroyed...
...present because "things are moving too fast," last week jumped smack into midstream of present happenings. He bought and became editor of his local paper, the Southern Pines, N.C. Pilot ("a guaranteed circulation of 1,200 and I count a man a subscriber even if he pays with a sack of potatoes...