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PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE Rec. noon. RUGBY, June 25. President Roosevelt declared today that his desire for a second front was as strong as the desire of the Russian people. Yesterday the United States Secretary of War, Mr, H. JL. Stimson, reported that there were indications that Germany was moving: big forces into France and Italy .to meet an Allied invasion. It is believed in London to be safe to assume that the Germans have about 40 divisions in France and the Low Countries, totalling perhaps 600,000 men, made up of ordinary field service divisions, panzer divisions, and training divisions. This total would exclude nondivisional troops, the' Luftwaffe, and j anti-aircraft troops, S.S. units, etc. - : Mr. Stimson's view, to which ex- ! pression was given a few days ago in London that German troops had been 'moved to Italian territory recently, would seem to find some measure of ■ confirmation from Berlin radio which stated tonight that Sardinia was defended by the "pick of the Axis" and was now equipped with means against invasion.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1943, Page 5
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