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...pounded last week at the same so-called invasion ports. Raids continued on Berlin and the German censor released a picture of a bad fire set by the R. A. F. (see cut). The British also repeated familiar missions to industrial centres. For the first time they bombed the Skoda works in Bohemia...
...supply of nearly 4,000,000 tons of iron ore (a third of her own production). In the event that Germany should be bombed out of the Ruhr, Austria's iron and steel industry at Graz, CzechoSlovakia's well-developed heavy industry near Prague (including the mighty Skoda munitions works at Pilsen) will be important...
...finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include...
...Allies had learned things about Blitzkrieg and its accessories. It was reported, for example, that the turrets of the 70-ton German break-through tanks (which Germany got by her seizure of the Skoda munitions works in Czechoslovakia) are their vulnerable spot. The quality of German aircraft, the ability of German pilots (many of whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans...
...internal unrest are an accepted starting point of wartime propaganda, there were hints last week that this very thing might be the answer to Germany's unusual hesitation in the war. It became more & more obvious that Czechs are doing all they can to sabotage their stern protectors. Skoda's intricate machine guns have a way of being delivered with one tiny, essential part missing. Prague's milk cans have a way of leaving dairies with a tiny hole punched in them...