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...unusual and savage emphasis on the theme of internal dissatisfaction: "Nobody must expect to live who tries to depreciate the sacrifices made at the front. No matter under what camouflage he tries to disturb this German front or to undermine the resistance of our people or to weaken the authority of the regime or to sabotage the achievements on the home front, he shall die for it." To this, Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels had added his own shrill, suggestive echo: "We still bear the scars from the divisions of our old party politics. Carefully and jealously we must...
...German guns barked at no enemy spies. Executed were four German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading. In No. 12 ditch of the cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine, the bodies of 50 German soldier-suicides lay rotting in the open...
...equine encephalitis, a horse disease, which may be transmitted to human beings by mosquitoes; 2) St. Louis encephalitis, named after the epidemics which raged in St. Louis in 1933 and again in 1937. Although they first appeared together, flu has no direct connection with encephalitis; it may, of course, weaken resistance to the nerve disease...
...National Education Association last week sent an SOS to school boards throughout the land, urged them to up teachers' pay. Said N.E.A.: "The longtime battle for democracy will be won in the schools. ... It is of utmost importance to the American way of life that we do not weaken our longtime defense . . . [as] was done...
...Saves materials (and further weight) because absence of rivet holes, which weaken sheet steel, means that plates and beams can be cut from thinner steel...