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...Nazi commander at Riga, a colonel general named Schemer, seemed bent on holding it all winter, ice or no ice. The town was girdled by a 25-mile belt of ferroconcrete pillboxes, tank traps and barbed wire. According to Soviet reporters, Schemer executed German troops who showed signs of wavering; eleven soldiers found skulking in a movie house were shot in the streets. Izvestia made the statement that 800 German tanks were hurled into the defense of Riga, that 500 of them were knocked out by Red fire...
Himmler has been portrayed by some as a sadistic weakling, a fretful schemer who rose to power through loyalty to Hitler. A onetime official of the Berlin Gestapo, now a refugee in England, described the situation thus: "Without him [Heydrich], Himmler would be just a senseless dummy. . . . Heydrich is young and intelligent, brutal, despotic and merciless. He uses Himmler cleverly. . . . Himmler shines while Heydrich works. Himmler betrays loyalties and friends, Heydrich annihilates them...
...Pavlo Petrovich Skoropadsky, 67, of Berlin, an amiable old schemer who was Germany's Ukrainian puppet in 1918 (TIME, June 30). Since his brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...
JUSTICE BE DAMNED-A. R. Hilliard -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mr. Peabody is standing trial for shooting his wife's lover, whose presumptive bones have just been fished out of the river. Actually, a clever schemer is using Judge Manfred's court and Defense Attorney Carver to murder Mr. Peabody. Theatrical, but the Judge does some fine, lofty detecting...
...this week functioning as a propaganda sheet for the Irish Republicans and giving aid and comfort to them in their nefarious work of terrorism and assassination of innocents. . . .I strongly suspect that this article on Eire was slipped over on TIME's editors by a clever Irish Republican schemer and deceiver. The Scottish-Irish of Northern Ireland. . . .are as determined today as ever that they shall remain British and Protestant; their banner is inscribed now, as in the day of William of Orange, with this proud slogan: " NO SURRENDER." Let the Irish terrorists start a fight if they want...