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Farthest north was Stockholm Correspondent John Scott, who planned to spend Christmas Day skiing with 70 interned American airmen near Falun in central Sweden. But Hart Preston was looking forward to beating the heat of Christmas in Rio with a day at the beach...
Berlin's Ministries and Government offices were leaving, too. This exodus reportedly began months ago, but it was far from complete when the R.A.F. began to strike in force. All vital offices, said Stockholm, would be or were being transferred elsewhere, as far as they could get from the R.A.F. bombers. Most of them, it appeared, would be set up anew in eastern cities; the Foreign Office was known to be going to Breslau. The Propaganda Ministry alone seemed likely to remain, at least temporarily; its presence in the capital was important for morale...
Last week the Nazis, via Stockholm, threatened England with a whole barrage of cross-Channel rockets. Asked the British Institute of Public Opinion: Do you think the Nazis are bluffing or telling the truth about their secret weapon? Of those questioned, 59% answered: Bluffing. The British military kept their opinion to themselves...
Days of Work. At week's end Berlin could take stock of the damage; Stockholm and London in turn sifted the reports. In a great arc sweeping from the industrial electric city of Siemensstadt in the west through the heart of the city to the sprawling factories and workers' dwellings of Pankow in the northeast, nearly a third of the city lay in ruins. Fire had accounted for 90% of the damage...
Last week Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' "Girl with the Sex-Appeal Voice" turned up in Stockholm. Brita Brager, the 23-year-old daughter of a Swedish naval attache, had been one of the stars of the Propaganda Ministry's radio section. In October, for reasons which must have been satisfactory to the Nazis, she abruptly left her job. Home in Sweden, she was more petulant than contrite...