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...slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised, French troop movements on the Western Front were reported with so little detail they sounded downright dreamy. While Germany's Propaganda Ministry (see col. 2) exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile...
Foreign Minister was racing from one Axis capital to another, and no word of his policy appeared in their press; they were involved in a growing Polish-German conflict, but did not know how deeply; they were menaced by troop movements that had nothing to do with Hungarian conflicts. Result was that Hungarians high and low wanted to be Hungarians and nothing else. Whether the Axis ran from Berlin to Rome or from Berlin to Moscow, Hungarians were determined to close their ranks...
...Deputies, "the situation in Europe has not been so delicate nor so grave as now. On the other side of our frontiers there are 3,000,000 men mobilized. In their factories the manufacture of armaments is being pushed forward feverishly. Reports keep reaching us of maneuvers and troop concentrations. It may be this summer that the issue between those who desire the pacific collaboration of nations and the attempt at domination of some of these peoples by others will be joined...
...people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...
...Berlin one day last week all workers were given a half holiday with pay. Factories, shops and offices hung out yards of gay Yugoslav flags distributed by Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, while their employes marched in masses to allotted cheering stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...