World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Listen to the Thunder

Invasion talk was never louder than it was last week. There was a nervous scramble across the whole continent of Europe. Alarms, warnings, hints flowed from Allied, Axis and neutral capitals:

> A radio voice crackled in French ears: "Listen to the thunder of the guns and planes. Do you hear, M. Laval?" The voice was reading a letter broadcast to M. Laval from General Henri Giraud in Algiers. Cried the voice: "You say we are traitors. But it is we who will save France. . . ."

> London reported that German...

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