(HMS Galatea was sunk by U-577 on Dec. 15, 1941 with the loss of 470 men. The Germans announced the sinking on Dec. 17th.)

(This report was true. The Dutch freighter Langkoeas, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58 on Jan. 3. After the ship was sunk, the commanding officer of the submarine, Lt. Cdr. Soshichi Kitamura rammed lifeboats and machine-gunned survivors in the water. This was not the first time a Japanese submarine commander had committed such an atrocity in the war. As early as Dec. 8, 1941 a Panamanian flagged ship named Donerail was sunk and the survivors were machine-gunned by the submarine. This would happen on many more occasions during the war. I don't know if Kitamura did this again, but he ended the war sinking only 5 ships for a total of 27,066 tons. He died in March of 1978.)

(Mr. Robert G. Menzies, the former Prime Minister, states that Australia would almost certainly suffer a direct physical attack. He was right, and it would happen soon. The Japanese would launch an air attack on Darwin on Feb. 19th.)

(The source for this report, the New York Post, has a most elaborate article detailing every aspect of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The report was a complete lie, but its purpose may have been to sow descent between Hitler and his generals. Hitler did not trust the old Prussian Generals and a report like this would certainly put them on his watch list.)

(The report from Stockholm was not true, neither general had been dismissed. Wilhelm List was relieved of command by Hitler on Sept. 9 , 1942. He was replaced by von Kleist. List never returned to active service. He was arrested after the war and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sentenced to life in prison in 1948, he was released, like so many other ex-Nazi officers, due to "ill health" in Dec. 1952. His health was good enough to keep him alive until Aug. 17, 1971.

This was not the first time the press reported that von Kleist had been in trouble with Hitler. In early Dec. 1941 there were reports that he had been "suspended' from his duties. Paul von Kleist was dismissed in Apr. of 1944, was implicated in the July 20 bomb plot [Operation Valkyrie] he was arrested by the Nazis, but later released. After the war he was arrested by the USA, transferred to the British, extradited to Yugoslavia, tried for war crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1948 he was extradited to the USSR, where he was tried again for war crimes. The Russians sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Ill health in a Russian prison was no reason to release an ex-Nazi, and von Kleist died of heart failure on Nov. 13, 1954.)

(Radio Moscow, again quoting a "Turkish" source, claims Hitler had ordered the Gestapo to watch Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. While in Nazi Germany everyone was under suspicion, reports that Göring was under a special watch is almost certainly false.)

(The report claims that Teddy Burton of Detroit sent President Roosevelt a check for $427.60 for his part of the national debt. I hope someone taught him that no matter how much he pays, it will never be enough. Since then the national debt has risen slightly. In 1941 the national dept was $43,000,000,000. That's forty-three billion dollars. Thanks to the irresponsible people elected by the citizens of the United States, the national debt is now $31,000,000,000,000. Thirty-one trillion dollars. If a child wanted to pay his or her part of the national debt now it would cost them $92,814. Tomorrow it will cost them more. As an example of failed leadership, when the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi came to Washington, the national debt was $2.5 trillion, when she left it was $31 trillion.)

(Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Lewis volunteered for service in the U.S. Army at New York.)

(Attacks on Malta airfield continued.)

(England-the, Heligoland' of the USA.)