The Ron Paul File

On November 23rd, 1945, Polish troops under British command investigate a small mental hospital located on the outskirts of Munich. The three V-2s launched from a cleared area behind German lines are not terribly accurate; one misses entirely, destroying a small German farming community, and the two that strike hit prepared troops (thanks to Enigma) in two areas several dozen miles apart with a moderate supply of gas equipment and antidote. When two vowels come together, both must be sounded, but the first must be run into the second; thus au has very nearly the sound of ow in "cow," as pisau, man; and oi has almost the sound of the English i in "ice," as, sunjai, pakai. Erich von Witzleben is in no position to surrender all German troops fighting; not in the way Guderian or Heydrich might be, but he can save the lives of his men, and of their families, if he moves quickly, which he does. Despite Darlan's rhetoric of a "Révolution culturelle" to purge the un-French elements, especially Communists and fascists, from the newly-liberated Republic, the purges are really a way to eliminate anyone who remembers too strongly that Francois Darlan himself was the arch-collaborationist extraordinarie, along with anyone who might politically oppose him in the post-war era.

The newly-arrived 19th Army is doing morning calisthenics at their base in the center of the old port city; most people are just waking up, getting ready for a long day at the local munitions plant or just in keeping body and soul together. Their associates were but mere acquaintances who were used to further the interests of the House of Rothschild, and then thrown on the garbage heap of history when they had served their purpose or outlived their usefulness. But they won't have to do that for long; on December 7, 1945, the first of a few dozen B-29s of Composite Group 509 touch down at a very, very impressive airstrip built by the Seabees on the island of Tinian over the past few months. An isolated dozen are from Niigata. He's not the only one heading there; Guderian's troops are stopped a dozen miles outside the city limits by a mobilized Hitler Youth, and Clark's army, despite having taken more casualities per its size than any other American Army up to that time, is not that far behind him. In the meantime, the Allied powers are moving to occupy their assigned zones of, well, occupation: The Americans in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia; the French in Rhineland-Palatine and Saarland, and the United Kingdom in Baden-Wurtemburg and the western half of Bavaria.

Their efforts were in vain. The dancers were more or less the same group at each session, and being at MIT, they decided to hack the caller: they defined "damn it" as a call, but didn't tell him. Their sons were Amschel, Salomon, Nathan, Kalmann (Karl) and Jacob (James). It doesn't go well at first; both Francois Darlan and Joseph Stalin recognize a defeated, lapdog Germany is in their best interests, so they ask for the impossible, cession of the Ruhr on the one hand and cession to the Elbe on the other. With the areas of devastation so far apart, the subsequent German armored offensive across the Oder fails bloodily for both sides, and Zhukov begins driving Dietrich back towards Berlin. He is a professional soldier; he knows that with the Americans stubbornly in Kyushu and the Soviets firmly clinging on to Hokkaido, the military will fail. The main military excitement came over December 16-19, when a single B-29 would fly over the town from the west, and back, seeming to be taking pictures, scouting. With the nerve gas attack, Stalin purges a fair number of military intelligence officers, handing over intelligence-gathering to Laverenti Beria's NKVD. He then tells Beria, rather bluntly, that if the Soviet atomic bomb (which is under Beria's direction) isn't finished by the first day of 1946, the NKVD will have a new director.

And the 25 kiloton bomb detonated over the exercising 19th Army (which dies nearly to a man) at 7:04 AM local time doesn't help matters much either. The hyphen is used in this Vocabulary to show the division of the words into syllables, except where the division is marked by an apostrophe or an inverted comma or by the mark ' which shows where the accent falls, as described below. Article by Mark Leibowitz. Article by Christian Gomez. Article by Bob Wenzel. Bob Adelman on the rest of the story. First, he'll restart the push for a full audit to expose what's going on. It is a lonely mission, lit by the eerie glow of a full moon. It is a milk run despite this; a survivor of the crew comments years later that it felt like just another photographing mission, even after dropping Suravikhino and bugging out an instant later. Later commentators, men like William Manchester, will write of the air of anticipation hanging over the Pacific at the beginning of December, 1945. Virtually every major Japanese island possesion in the Pacific is in American hands; all the way up to Tanega off the coast of Kyushu.