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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (hero of the night-blockading of Zeebrugge in 1918) arose in all humility to second First Lord Churchill. Said he:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Out-talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"They [the Nazis] have not chosen to molest the British Fleet, which has awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during last week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

All along the line there were last-minute changes. The annual meeting of the Nazi Party Old Guard-those hard, mystic, loyal, lower-middle-class men machine-gunned on the streets of Munich on Nov. 9, 1923, in Adolf Hitler's abortive bid for power-had been scheduled at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Police Chief Heinrich Himmler announced a reward of $320,000 for information leading to apprehension of the culprits, and a private citizen added $40,000. All the world's question: who were the plotters?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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