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According to a British Broadcasting Corp. announcer whose ears were bent rather far forward one day last week, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Nazi warlord in Norway, sat down to the table in Oslo, reached as usual for his newspaper, found in its place two copies of the London Times, just two days...
...young republic, fearing a warlord of continental Europe, undertook its first full-fledged defense program. From the Federal Government in Philadelphia Whitney got a contract for 10,000 muskets. But New Haven whispered of the queer doings at the new arms factory: Whitney wasn't building muskets at all, he was building machines. When delivery was called for, Whitney could show only 500 muskets and a weird machine shop...
Perhaps Supreme Warlord Hitler in tended to use his Balkan Army for a thrust into Greece whose Army was still pushing at the Italians last week, or at least as a diversion to pull away British forces pounding the Italians in Libya. Perhaps it was to be used against Turkey or as insurance against Soviet ambitions during an all out battle in the West. Supreme Warlord Hitler gave no indication, and suspension of all except official communications from Rumania left the whereabouts of the major body of his troops unknown...
...Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement on Hitlerian plans. Last week, which saw the Führer acclaimed as the greatest warlord in history, was one of these occasions...
While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...