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Show HEADLINERS . . . in the news Shadows of Frederick the Great fall from the person of Adolf Hitler in the opinion of his henchman, Field Marshal Goering. In Berlin on a short visit from the fighting front, he compared Hitler to Frederick Fred-erick and pictured him as a master military strategist. From Boston came word that Senator Bridges (Rep., N. H.) had declared that city to be overrun with Nazi bundsmen and he called upon President Roosevelt to clean up this "fifth column" before proceeding with the national defense program. And another senator, this one from Massachusetts itself Senator Lodge (Republican) carne a suggestion sugges-tion that the United States regular army be increased to a standing force of 750,000 men. He figures the present goal of 280,000 men will be reached by fall. Changing horses in the middle of a stream isn't such bad business, according to Wendell L. Willkie, candidate can-didate for the Republican presidential presiden-tial nomination. He voiced this theory in a political speech in which be assailed the New Deal for what he termed "failure" to defend the United States "against itself and further charged that it could not be trusted (in a third term) to defend the nation from outside aggression. His speech was made at a Republican Repub-lican rally in Somerville, N. J., on the eve of that state's primary election. |