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...Geneva the League of Nations began preparing to evacuate, first to the French spa of Vichy, then if necessary to the European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...
...towns below Narvik in Norway's long, slender, north-central neck, Allied landings were made to command the road (but no rail) connections into Sweden and the northern terminus of the one road into Norway's waist...
...across the [Moselle] river and there was infantry on the road in massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
...aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks, near Lulea, thereby...
...last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years...