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There was something in the air at Stockholm also. The arrival in Stockholm of Finnish Premier Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Trade Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner, Supply Minister Henrik Ramsay and onetime Premier Juho Kusti Paasikivi, started rumors that Finland was asking Russia for peace. Finns claimed these important ministers were in Stockholm to discuss food only, but this subject is closely related to peace in Finnish minds...
...against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force...
Germany. Deacon-like Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler has long been scorned by most musicians because he early made peace with the Nazis. He still conducts the Berlin Philharmonic, which tours occupied nations, has been reported as far afield as Athens. Even more condemned than Furtwangler is Willem Mengelberg, who was with the New York Philharmonic from 1921 to 1929. Red-haired Dutchman Mengelberg has lately conducted all over Germany. Only other internationally known musicians who have been playing in Germany are Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Walter Gieseking. Hulking, butler-like Gieseking has roused suspicions that he is pro-Nazi...
...fortress of the British Isles, and there were suggestions that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion of the war in the west...could...
Paul Ludwig von Kleist is a man of great pride. He comes of a noble Pomeranian family, the most famous of whom was Germany's great classical dramatist, Wilhelm von Kleist. He boasts 36 ancestors who held the rank of general in Prussian and Pomeranian Armies. And last week Colonel General Paul Ludwig von Kleist could boast that he himself was the first German general to be pushed around by the Russians in World...