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...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
...From Stockholm, TIME Correspondent John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...
Professor Sakimura quietly sent his wife to her parents in Holland. Quietly he boarded a plane for Sweden. In Stockholm he registered as a political refugee, accepted enough money from the Swedish Academic Political Refugee Committee for food, lodging, cigarets, paper and ink. He turned to the socialistic beliefs of his youth, began to write a book about Japanese cartels, mulled over plans for Japan's future...
...broke apart his life with a lurid account of his turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...