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Brought to trial for treason in South Africa (TIME, Dec. 28), Sydney Leibbrandt turned out to be a German agent, who arrived in a U-boat to organize sabotage and rebellion against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back...
...August 1941, Prime Minister Churchill visited his namesake vessel, a former U.S. four-stack destroyer, and promised to come aboard again if the Churchill ever sank a U-boat. The destroyer's crew did not forget. One night last June, as the Churchill patrolled off Venezuela, a dark shape loomed ahead. The battle signal sounded. Men sprang to action stations. The Churchill swerved, tried to ram the foe. Luckily, she missed. What looked like a hulking U-boat turned out to be tiny Lasola Island, ten feet high, 200 feet long...
Tonnage Up. Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander said last week: "In February we believe we have achieved the best results against the U-boat yet experienced. . . . There still is probably a larger output of U-boats than the total numbers being killed, but the gap is being reduced." Thanks to increased production and reduced sinkings, there has been a net gain in Allied shipping since last August of some 1,250,000 tons...
Round-the-clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
...Navy announcement that more than 850 lives were lost in the sinking of two North Atlantic passenger-cargo ships had driven home the U-boat peril to the U.S. (TIME, March 1). The horror came home with Signalman Robert Weikart, whose ship was the first to reach the spot where one of the torpedoed vessels went down. Said Weikart...