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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force the Nazis to change to sea routes, both in the North Sea (to northern Norway) and in the Baltic (to Finland), where Allied...
...press conference in London last week, reporters shot straightforward questions at T. V. Soong, China's sturdy Foreign Minister. Cosmopolite Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek, answered in plain English. Result: a broad-scale, official blueprint of China's postwar policies...
...C.C.F. which Jolliffe led proposed more "social and economic planning on a bold and comprehensive scale" and public ownership of natural resources and industries. Said Jolliffe: "Every democratic country is moving toward more collectivist organization. . . . Shall it be collectivism of the authoritarian brand, or democratic collectivism? Dictatorship or cooperation?" The Ontario response surprised even C.C.F.s...
Pushing south and west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...
...Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...