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Yesterday I heard the Field Marshal's impassioned speech to the munition workers at Tegel. ... At the end of the speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt...
...Nice, dark, scowling Ernst Rüdiger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...
Killed in Action. Heinrich von Weizsacker, son of Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, Secretary of State in the German Foreign Ministry, in Poland; Captain Antoni Janusz, 42, winner last year of the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, in Poland; Dr. Florence Newsom, British Red Cross worker, in Poland, when her plane was shot down; Prince Oskar of Prussia, 24, Lieutenant of the 51st German Infantry Regiment, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of eight Princes of the ex-royal family in active service,*"while leading an attack by his company" in Poland...
Three weeks ago Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch was little more than a name outside Germany, an untried general who was supposed to be a good organizer but no theorist, whose rise to the position of Commander in Chief of the German Land Forces had been due at least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved...
...Christian, William West Cleveland, Jean England deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice, Charles Cost Royer. Richard Honderson Russell...