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...partitioning of his new province on the Adriatic Sea, Hitler must consider as many as six claims. Even before the war had officially ended, the Axis jackals had begun to snarl over the latest spoils...
According to New York Times Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger, German bombing did just what it was intended to do: snarl communications and service. Wrote Sulzberger, after a spectacular three-day flight from Belgrade to Greece, of the scene after the first raids on Skoplje...
Government officials were about ready to give up last week and admit that the Allis-Chalmers strike, worst labor snarl since the defense program got under way, had them stumped. Still shut tight at week's end, after 52 days of wrangling, was the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee. Gathering dust were $45,000,000 worth of orders for machinery to equip warships, machinery and machine tools needed in shipbuilding, turbogenerators needed for the new smokeless powder plant at Radford, Va. (see p. 21). Like traffic jammed in a narrow street, work was piling up behind the stalled work...
Although the British took their instructions with a laugh, the Germans reacted with a snarl. These instructions proved, they said, that the British were planning to use gas. To the British, this reaction was bad news. They remembered what Adolf Hitler had said in pre-apology for all-out bombings: "From now on, bomb will be answered with bomb. . . . Whoever disregards the rules of humane warfare cannot expect from us that we will not take the same step...
Everyone had a new theory on invasion tactics. One developed out of stories that German bombers were practicing towing 14-man gliders. Some 28,000 of them were reported under construction, to be sent soaring silently in from the Channel with troops detailed to snarl Communications in advance of massed seaborne detachments. London's Aeroplane described a new secret weapon: a 390-mile-an-hour bomber, with wings and fuselage of transparent plastics, invisible at altitudes above 2,500 feet. In the U. S., ex-Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson said Germany was making British uniforms...