Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...
...London expected 100,000 air-bombing casualties per week. Some 250 big suburban busses were transformed into ambulances. Hospitals ringed the city, first-aid stations honeycombed it. But these preparations were only for a London that was to be relatively empty 48 hours after hell should erupt. Evacuation plans for all nonessential workers, for mothers & children, old people, invalids, were set and published. Beauty parlors were crammed with women seeking one last hairdo before fleeing to safety or reporting for emergency jobs...
India. Summer capital of quasi-independent India's British rulers is storied Simla in the hills north of Delhi. Indian Army reserve officers there made ready to mobilize last week. Throughout, steaming India, air-raid precautions were taken, especially at ports, where oil tanks and factories were camouflaged. Quaintest note of the week was an article in Bernarr Macfadden's U. S. weekly, Liberty, by India's body-mortifying Mahatma Gandhi. Excerpt...
...Dundee, attending the secret sessions in the darkest days of the War-after the Passchendaele offensive, the five-month stalemate on the Western Front that cost the British 300,000 casualties. Back in Lloyd George's Cabinet as Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, Secretary of State for Colonies, he attended the still more panicky, still more secret sessions that followed the Russian Revolution, when Russia's leaving the Allies released about 50 more German divisions for the Western Front. Undismayed, undisturbed, a superb orator when aroused, his mind crammed with sonorous phrases (many...
...came, Poles felt, would be a "holy war," a war for the ideal of liberty, "for your freedom and ours." They talked, as 600,000 reservists gathered to join the 1,500,000 already under arms, of the strategy that might be used, of a shuttle service of air attacks-British and French planes, starting from France, bombing German munitions plants and industrial centres, landing in Poland to refuel and bomb their way back. Levelly, the semi-official Kurjer Czerwony summed up the Polish state of mind: "Poland, calm and watchful, awaits Berlin's choice of peace...