Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working himself up to this breakdown, Orator Göring cried: "We want peace but Versailles took peace out of the world! . . . We can always shoot but we never get jittery . . . God is kind! . . . Our air force justifies unshakable confidence in victory and our fortifications in the west will halt any power under...
...bedfellows in the League of Nations with Soviet Russia, "which maintains its rule by shootings and tortures." Only in Germany and Italy, he cried, were the people 99% behind their governments. He branded Czechoslovakia as a pseudo-democracy forcibly created by the Treaty of Versailles, and accused former French Air Minister Pierre Cot of having once said: "The task of Czechoslovakia in a future war will be to bomb the key industries of Germany...
When, 17 months ago, foreign correspondents reported that the strategically unimportant holy Basque city of Guernica had been ruthlessly destroyed by German bombers in the service of Rightist Spain, ace French Newscommentator "Pertinax" (André Géraud) had a ready explanation. According to him, Air Marshal Hermann Göring of Germany ordered the bombing as an experiment of the effectiveness of the air attack...
...three days last March, Barcelona was bombed systematically at intervals of every three hours. The loss of life was more than half of London's air-raid toll during the entire World War. Reputedly used for the first time was a new bomb, the gas expansion of which killed people an eighth of a mile away from the explosion, stunned those a quarter of a mile away. Although Barcelona's morale showed signs of cracking, the heavy raids ceased suddenly...
...contentions that the Barcelona raids had also been experimental. The new bomb, it was said, was a closely guarded German military secret. All that foreign military attachés in Leftist Spain had learned from a study of its fragments was that it was filled with exploding liquid air, was made of a material more durable and lighter than aluminum...