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       WAR IN EUROPE AND NAZIS

• What Price Mussolini - Il Duce survives at home by overrunning Ethiopia

• That Death Squadron - Musso's bluff to G.B. so much bluster

• Death of the Peace Plan - Franco-British accord gone over G.B. popular will against Musso.

• On the Lire Front - Ethiopia costly to Musso. in monetary reaction

• Hitler's Germany - Jews suffer economic discrimination, relocation, and systematic starvation

• The Murderer's Excuse - Okay to bomb Red Cross, says Musso; Ethiopia decap'ed his bomber-boys

• Suiting the Words to the Deeds - Ethiopian invasion like WWI in excuses for rapine

• Mark Twain On War - All unjust; war-mongers always get their way

• War Without God - On whose side is He?

• Italy Looks Back - Germany-Austria-Italy preparing to wage war again as one

• Three Cheers for Our Oceans - War to come: Germany-Japan-Italy vs. France-G.B.-Russ.

• Herr Hitler Puts a Question - Rhineland begs how France appeases both Germany and Russia

• The French Attitude - But how say Hitler to neutral Belgium?

• The German Attitude - Treaties acceptable if suit; paper in fire

• The Other Cheek - Mein calm superior to thine; repent ye, mere passenger in mein camp

• Hoping for the Worst - Ethiopia costs Musso. 3/4 gold

• Leif and Christopher - Hitler says Leif discovered America; Cash says Americans

• A Prelude of Bombast - Poland, Russia: Beware the Heel

• A Role for Adolf - X-mas under Nazis

• Exit Sir Basil - Arms dealer played both sides

• Chip on Adolf's Shoulder - Spain's incursion on Nazi ship misdemeanor, not piracy

• Nomination - Fascism no-go in France; Paris, maybe

• Note for the Signor - Beware the march of cannon

• The Hoss Is Already Stolen - Franco is German-Italian pawn

• He'd Best Look It Up - "Reality" is superior supplies in G.B. and U.S.

• Flies in the Ointment - "Employment" in Germany a chimera

• From Pillar to Post - Vatican uneasy bedfellow to Germany due to fear of communism

• The Eternal Optimists - G.B. and France write useless paper with Musso.

• Grammar for Murderers - Japan, Musso., Heel need correct notes

• Pedagogic Note - Musso-phyte needs Papa-warning, else worm-meat

• The Window Is Not There - Rose gone forever in bombs

• Maybe a Victory, After All - Musso stalls, as usual

• Still In Character - Musso: Honor=Lying, murder, per doctoral thesis

• *To Serve the Church - Franco bombs churches in Barcelona to save them from Reds; nonsensical

• 1914 and 1938 - Tacit alliance with G.B. not plunging us deeper toward war as Sen. Borah says;opposite

• So Soon A Generation - Neville Chamberlain's "generation" of peace lasts a week

• A Fast Play - Anschloss in Austria may not yet come to be as Chancellor Schusnigg orders election; Mussolini sitting tight

• Ingenuous Hermann - Goering only person who only believes Nazis will win Austrian plebiscite

• In the War Zones - Franco advances in Spain; China holds off Japanese

• Chamberlain at Trafalgar - Falsetto indecisiveness costing Great Britain; unlike earlier Brits

• Shotgun Wedding - Thomas Mann says Austria is not German and thus Anschloss improper; he is right

• Gold and Armageddon - Gold flowing to U.S. from G.B. & France for sequestration & future supplies

• *Poland Plays Wolf - Poland's imperialism will likely soon be repaid in kind as Nazis will invade

• A Perilous Untruth - Isolationism of Sens. Hiram Johnson and Borah is dangerous; can't sit quietly

• They'll Fight - The 34% who say they won't fight will; the young and lovely women will see to it

• The Douhet Theory - Franco, as Hitler and other fascists, follows Douhet--bomb civilians to submission

• An "Honorable" Default - Crooked Hitler won't pay interest on bonds issued on seized Austrian gold

• A Man Abstracted - Is der Fuehrer quailing before the French, Brit in annual Nuremberg message?

• More Appeasement - London Times call to give up Sudeten has good rationale, poor judgment

• A Fateful Speech - Germany's "invincibility" is its disregard of consequences: ruin

• Sauce for the Gander - Sudeten goose; why not garnish Bolzano Germans under Musso thumb?

• The Sale Takes Form - Bumble sells Czechs down river as with Italy in Spain

• Freeman's Choice - Franco's cruel war: axe or yoke?

• Headaches for Franco - Fascism not big with people, military, Carlists

• Toward Real Appeasement - British call Franco's hand

• Subdivision of Czechs - Hitler divides it in two

• The Last Czech - Washington Embassy stands despite Hitler's demands

• Gold and a Voyage - Risky seas

• Appeasement's Chickens - Russia, Poland, Rumania distrust Bumble; Munich isolation

• Vest-Pocket Munich - France seeks to trade Syria's soil for Turk's support

• Ominous Moves Here and Abroad - Troop concentrations at Danzig; U.S. Fleet moves to Pacific

• Megalomania in War - S.S. butchery training will reap surprise in real warfare

• Men of Property - By Holy Roman rights, painter owns half Italy and Musso., half Germany

• Fair Enough - Plebiscites around

• Progress - Women and children now fight, also

• Going Home - Musso's land troops removed from Spain, but of no moment

• Lady's Spirit - Brit upper class still stiff upper lip

• Pirate's Boast - Germany, Italy sinking British merchant ships for Franco

• A Smart Stroke - Eden, Churchill welcome additions to British cabinet; Hitler threatens all of Poland

• Innocents in Camp - A spot of tea for the Private, sir?

• Cat and Mouse - Hungary now slave to Hitler; slaves make poor allies if war comes

• War Prospect - War likely; millions on millions of lives will be lost

• Lion Growls - If Hitler continues Corridor demand, Poland must fight or be cut from Baltic, strangled; war

• The Bargain - Hitler's word worthless; he means to have all of Poland, not just Danzig, highway

• A Fanatic Menaces Civilization - Nazis invade Poland; won't stop until vanquished and hung or . . .

• Our Policy? - Preferable to watch, but must aid GB, France before too late

• On the Fence - Musso may be more dangerous as "neutral" than with Hitler

• Boon to Allies - Italy's staying out helps odds

• A Promise - Hitler says will not bomb women and children; but already hitting Polish cities

• Berlin Visitors - Russia's overtures may mean German alliance; but could be costly

• Name Wanted - "War to Stop Hitler"?

• Appeasement? - Does Chamberlain intend sell-out of Poland?

• Apocalypse - The Seven Angels

• Lusitania - Sinking of Athenia recalls

• Forever Behind - Chamberlain follows; Churchill leads

• The War - Will be slow; Nazis may seek quick peace with GB, France; GB bombs to clear N. Sea, Baltic?

• Unspectacular - French, Brit lack of move, no moment; storming Siegfried slaughter in WWI

• First Quarter - Early sweeps in Poland don't insure victory

• If Poland Falls - Holding it takes as many men as getting it; splits fronts

• In the Balkans - Whether Balkans, Russia warm to Nazi if wins not certain; but still Turkey

• The Lie Front - Everyone lying some, but Nazi does most

• Lesson Unlearned - Disrespect for enemy unwise; the Master said so

• Russian Riddle - Japan stays neutral; Russia should regard U.S. joinder with Allies if it joins Nazi

• In the Pit - Not just Brit propaganda got U.S. into World War, as Ironpants claims

• Beau Geste - One Nazi submariner Galahad; another, typical swine

• Marking Time - Nazi seeks to split France from GB to force GB to table; Allies await Musso choice

• Nazi Chivalry - Guernica, Almeria, concentration camps remind of what it is really like

• Precedent - War on civilians will increase rage against Nazi

• Prisoners - Slovak soldiers placed between German lines and forced to fight for brigands

• Love Feast - Propaganda designed to dodge concentration camps; British airman statement suspect

• From the Record - Polish towns, civilians bombed despite British warnings

• War by Threat - Plan is to paralyze and divide victims; half works

• Have a Cigarette? - Russian soldier may prefer Polish to German; but leaders also exchange cigs

• Propaganda - Ironpants comparison of German to Brit not well taken

• That Loot - Versailles no excuse; not so harsh as supposed

• Standard Model - Hitler's wish for "lasting peace" familiar

• Scraps of Paper? - German concentration indicates they will come through Holland, Belgium

• Double-Damned - Ironpants praised Munich, now pans GB, France for sell-out to Czechs and Poland

• Foxes Come Out - Oil from Brazil to Vladivostok--and the chase is on

• Counter-Terror - Rumanians avenge Nazi plot with terror; usual Hitler recipe won't work

• A Choice of Calamities - Entering war=staggering losses, costs, militarization; but not, will be worse

• Dead Soldier - German Junker officer opposed Hitler; probably shot by own

• Nazi Trap - Jewish doctors purged; now needed, but too late

• Wagner Man - English ban Wagner; absurd, music has nothing to do with Nazi

• A Dream Hedged - Hitler aides stow money outside Germany, lack confidence in outcome

• Map Learnin' - Population more astute than in World War

• Balkan Bloc - Musso's intentions muddled by embattled possibilities; Stalin also unclear

• In Czech-Land - Czechs may revolt; not fighting with Germans because distrusted

• Three Little Ships - Hitler sinks pulp, though not contraband

• Quandary - Russia coy, no real ally of Hitler

• Ghost War - Truth of action hard to know; all quiet on Western Front?

• Fourteen Points - Wilson's plan; Ironpants claims Allies violate; not really

• Little Light - Stalin's intentions remain unclear; probably wants long war of attrition

• Cuckoo - World could cause us to laugh ourselves to death

• Ample Supply - Words preferable to bullets

• The Cats Have Not Yet Jumped - Possible alignments of Russia, Italy, Balkans

• Russ Prize - Afghanistan poor nation; frank, independent, warring; Russia may seek, hard terrain

• A Hangover - World might laugh itself to death

• Strange Cries - Nazi outrage over British commandeering of Altmark strange, from murderous nation

• For the Record - Altmark outrage by Norway against Britain is merely self-preservation game

• Carol's Turn - Hitler promises goodies for Rumania while seeking to vanquish--as with Czechs

• Allied Chances - Trondheim is key to Norway; need battleships, more French soldiers

• Nazi Claims - Norway in trouble but Nazis exaggerate to demoralize

• Safe Million - Bounty on Hitler's capture; but not possible, must be killed

• Exploded - Norway fought by Brits, not Canadians; Nazi propaganda, RRR wrong

• Scapegoat - Chamberlain gets blame for Norway; defeatism working against Allies

• Two Versions - Nazi Consul General in Charlotte; propaganda

• A Team? - Ironpants and RRR out to save U.S. from war with Germany

• Glory's Roll - Heroes in Norway

• Claim - More Ossa on Olympus from Berlin...

• Novelist - Knut Hamsun embraces Nazis; long cycle of U.S. hate

• Test - British must stop Hitler from getting Narvik

• Telling - Brit. Admiral blames Chamberlain's reserve on battleships for Norway loss

• Witness - Ironpants, Beard believe loss of England, France no matter to U.S.

• On This Course - Norway loss bad; opens door for Nazi navy; Brits should take out Ital. navy now

• Strategy - Wild hog now in Belgium, Holland; Allied plan? Stop Hog by sword or end

• Italian Fight - On Caporetto Campaign of WWI

• Wasted - Hog says Belgium, Holland invaded to stop French, Brit attack

• Up Winnie - Chamberlain out, Churchill in; too late but qualities should help

• One Too Many - Belgium, Holland invasion begins ravanche, says Hog; if loses, will pay price--this time

• Trail's End - Chamberlain failure, but true gentleman

• Facing Facts - Must get ready now, navy weak, propagandists marching

• War's Prospect - Long time before good news; losing ground in Holland; must build air forces

• Safe Enough - Red Cross funds safe from dictators

• In Europe - New Attila in France, Belgium, Holland; not just "over there"

• The U.S. - Immediate entry won't aid; first, build planes, tanks, finance Allies

• Western Front - Channel Ports must be held; Maginot will be costly for Nazi; Lowland advance slowed

• Poll - Locals favor aid to Allies

• Time Factor - Time to build planes; U.S. slept long enough

• Taft Explains - Isolationists roar against defense

• Purge - Fifth Columnists in France should be purged--with sword

• A Pooh-Pooh - Ironpants wants navy out of Pacific; loss of Dutch East Indies okay?

• Choice - Hitler will offer France, Britain terms; unlikely to accept

• Foregone - Naval Committee report politicized

• Symbol - Wasp to dung-beetle; Hitler to invaded nations

• Not Lost Yet - Antwerp down, but even should Paris fall, Allies may not falter; central mtns. formidable

• 1775 - 1940 - Mecklenberg independence; spirit needed now

• No Difference? - Lindbergh says imperialistic war; no matter who wins; so okay to see U.S. Nazified?

• Ploughman - Terrorists, bombs do not ruffle Belgian farmer

• His Allies - If Hitler wins, Sentimentalists his staunchest allies

• Battle - Nazi gains in France are soft mechanized forward advance, not yet won; Weygand must re-form

• Clumsy - Embargo all goods to Germany; not just stop sales for stolen gold

• Warning - France overrun from lack of air, mechanized support; can happen here; Fifth Column aids

• Nazi Gamble - Nazi soldiers no mere dupes; goal to enslave; if lose, will pay price

• Warlock - Senator Lundeen mad because French, Brits in West Indies; wants to fight them, not Germany

• Jitters - Stalin fearful; Musso. still on fence

• Peril - People, pols oblivious to real danger; Fifth Column, Musso, Japan combine for trouble to U.S.

• Master Race - Invented little; use much; good at 3M

• Irish Base - Hitler wants it to starve England, have better range on Atlantic shipping

• Klan Column - Klan more likely to be Column than aid in stopping

• Follow-Up - Goebbels mocks truth; says Brits used civilian shields

• Warning - Warning to U.S. passenger ship--from whom?

• Betrayal - Belgian surrender shames king; could have held on

• Solved - xiNIHCACSAT=The Secret Weapon

• Text - A revelation

• Prior Quisling - Bolo, Fifth Columnist in WWI, executed; accomplice served time, then Finance Minister

• Appropriations - A billion in defense just starter; FDR must exhort industry

• Notice - British retreat, but won't surrender; not decadent as Hitler claims

• Spider Song - Seductress Adolf to France, "Come hither, let me squeeze you in half"; goal is England

• Wasted Arms - Time to sell guns to Britain

• Duty - Hog executes French prisoners; excuse is claim that French shot downed airmen; not likely

• One Battle - Nazi losses so high, gains in France dubious; French regroup; Brit rearguard stands

• Fifth Column - Origins of the phrase--four outside, fifth inside

• Surpassed - Caligula no match for Hitler for "shameless impudence"

• Italian Move - Musso to join war, but where and when is guess

• Time to Duck - Hitler claims will not trouble West; says spies in Mexico really Brit; such begs our action

• Five Million - The number who are fleeing the Hog in France

• Not Too Smart - Flanders, Paris backfire; Brit, French morale improved

• Any Old Port - Stalin may be cowed to join Allies if quick Nazi win, no stalemate; could check Musso

• Model - Daladier gone in France; appeasers in England also going

• Ship Names - The system of nomenclature

• Silly Move - Italian Editor's warning to U.S. not well-received

• A Tune Changes - RRR deems Brit, French islands crucial for U.S. but "worthless" if Hitler takes them

• Cargo - Scrap iron in Wilmington to Italians

• King's Guilt - Belgian King surrendered, exposed British flank

• Advertisement - Inside a newspaper

• Italian Case - Whether Musso will enter war remains question

• The Jackal Springs - Italy enters; cannot win either way

• Purpose - Musso's purpose is to enslave

• Succor - Red Cross needs contributions

• By Daytime - Nazi daytime bombing is to see targets better, not save civilians

• New World - "New and better world" is to enslave and murder at will

• Worst Peril - Propaganda threat worse than military

• Weather Vane - Turkey's continued alliance to West good sign that Hitler, Musso claims of victory hollow

• The Blame - Neanderthal blames French fortifications for having to destroy Paris

• Hard Words - NC lawyer believes Brits will sink US ship, as Nazi claims

• In 90 Days - Reverse of U.S. policy; now solidly behind Allies

• Gesture - Hitler best not gloat; Versailles no justification

• France Falls - France to become Nazi puppet now

• War Lesson - Best defense is good offense; fixed fortifications anachronism

• Opportunity - Slow reaction to Nazi horde; but Red Cross contribution will help refugees

• Epitaph - France done in by pols; let not America be likewise

• Weakness - Indecision of democracies reason France ruled by Das Schwein

• Same Way - Britain awake; U.S. still asleep

• Addendum - "Tender-minded" lawyer believes Brits to sink U.S. ship

• Excuse - "Honorable foe" same hog which marched on France in 1918

• We Are In - By selling arms to belligerents, we violate Hague; already at war

• Terms - French surrender: Rump state, disarmed, to aid Nazi against G.B.

• Riders - "Peace" promised; death, but Four Horsemen cometh first

• With Honor? - French now 1/3 Jackal, 2/3 Hog; sold by Petain; had choice still to fight

• Shame - Italians sit behind Jackal fearfully waiting--no honor

• Poor Joke - No prank to raise Nazi flag; leave U.S. flag up instead

• Bear Moves - Stalin will await outcome with Brits as to whether to hit Nazi or play canny

• Symbolism - Musso best not try to take back Britain for Roman Empire

•  At A Tomb  - "The rat-like man leaning on the balustrade" at the Tomb of Napoleon may be in fear. . .

• Threat - Nazi paper: Sniping Brits criminal, could make GB Dunkerque; Cash: Sniping of bandits justified

• July 4, 1940 - Liberty overshadowed by clouds, horde, but not dead unless will of the free lost

• Battle - GB purge of French fleet rational; else to Petain-Laval gang, i.e., Hitler

• Vain Claim - Italians penetrate only skeletal French force; no great feat as Musso claims

• Zeal - Nazi howls over Lion's French fleet action; they enslave, ruin; all else wrong

• Dilemma - Humanity conflicts with practicality; blockade, starvation or not

• Unity - French recipe simple--destroy freedom, have one Party; just like Hog puppeteer

• Heroism - Italy puffs up, beats breasts and hides; come through Gibraltar, says Winnie

• Hoax - Another Nazi propaganda move to stir distrust for British

• Chivalry - Jailed Dutch merchant failed to see flirt plan: More Nazi babies to murder all

• Immune - Dies looks at Bund, implies active in Mexico; why never KKK, Coughlin, Vindicators?

• Biology Note - British ships spring new life and limb in spite of Nazi shot-and-sunk reports

• Jitters - Unjustified suspicion of Congressman showing Nazi movie on Poland; warning only, not furtherance

• Motto - French now say, "Labor, The Family, The Fatherland"--Joan weeps in fires

• At Hand - Laval, Flandin control France; help Axis to save necks

• The Hunted - German intellectuals in France at risk, need help of U.S.

• F. O. B. - For need of transports, Brit children no longer to be brought to U.S. by Brit ships; we should do it

• Tactics - Zeitung, Telefunken tell U.S. Big Lie: Let go England; no force by nice little Nazi

• Second Choice - Universal military service, standing army: pitfalls aplenty, founders warned; but...

• Observed - Bastille Day celebrated in France anyway--in tears

• Adolf's Terms - Hitler lures GB with promises of money, power, vanquishing Stalin; hides real purpose

• Nay-sayer - One Frenchman stands up to Hitler

• Cat's Paw - Spain attempts to spread Nazi-Fascist dogma in cutting off Chile

• Peace Game - Hitler appears hesitant to attack England just now

• Moral Ire - Nazis warn British "snipers" defending homes; butcher thousands

• Straw Man - Adolf, not Fifth Columns, funneling food from conquered; Red Cross caught in dilemma

• Free Election - Bear swallows Latvia by standing on hind legs

• Italy Hedges - More meatless days ordered; Brits safe for now

• Next Victim - Swiss next to be swallowed

• Cock and Bull - France short on gas, but not gas-dependent

• Sea Fight - (Nominated for Pulitzer) -The men of the Jervis Bay, a breed apart, protected rear from Nazi

• High Price - Greece and Libya about to fall to Nazi, but heavy toll for few gains will demoralize Germans

• Drift Policy - Spain may join Axis; U.S. policy may cause fall of G.B., leaving us alone to face the Nazi

• Old Battle - Xerxes, an early Hitler, outnumbered, but Leonidas and Spartan band fought to death

• Alternative - Xerxes was defeated; so will be Hitler, not if, but when; most favor convoy, so get on with it

• Half Convoy - Convoy to mid-Atlantic silly--ineffectual risk; time for full convoy, shooting back to defend

• A Prophecy - Escape of Von Werra, admitted to bail, no surprise; Nazi murderers forfeit legal rights

• Scant Aid - U.S. Atlantic patrol helpful, but ineffective gesture of war; w/o more, Britain will fall in 1941

• They Cheered - Ovation from Nazis for Lindbergh's "Britain will fall"; proves their and C.A.L's hopes

• Tank Line - Tank production at Chrysler going strong--finally; will soon eclipse German production

• Grim Words - Churchill grim, but strong, correct; Hitler is incarnation of wish and will of German nation

• Pretty Thin - Darlan trying to get French angry at British to make Vichy full Axis partner; in vain

• Narcotic - Hess desertion does not herald Nazi collapse; narcotization of U.S. and G.B. best Nazi hope

• More Light - French traitor and Communist Doriot is pro-Nazi; like other Communists, is only for himself

• Dubious Act - Neutrality Act may prevent incidents--but hastens fall of G.B, divides U.S. for Nazi good

• Peril Spots - If Spain to join Axis, we should seize Canaries, Azores, Cape Verdes, and Dakar; stop airbases

• Hess Puzzle - Hess--original Nazi interested in German "Master Class", not peace; Britain won't accept

• Bogey Man - Darlan sells out Vichy to Hitler in hopes of intimidating U.S. to stay out; will backfire

• *Twelve Men - The young Canadian men sunk by the Nazi barbarian were worth millions of appeasers

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