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...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD...
...Address withheld...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD...
...invasion eve Portugal finally came through, banned all shipments of tungsten ore (also called wolfram, necessary in hardening steel) to Germany. Just after invasion, Sweden agreed to choke off an important German supply source. Sweden's SKF cut total ball-bearing shipments to Germany by one fifth. The withheld fifth included practically all Swedish bearings for Nazi tanks and planes...
...Grace? The London Daily Mirror printed the story (with names withheld). Englishmen were shocked. The U.S. Army had Parliament's sanction to deal with its own delinquents in its own way but this time Englishmen could not keep quiet. Pointing out the "reasonable doubts" in the case, the Mirror indignantly editorialized: "In America, which has a color problem peculiar to herself, clemency might not be possible. Here . . . it may not be impossible as an act of grace to take a different view...