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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All that was needed to make War II the legitimate heir to War I was a knitting bee, and busily clacking their needles this week were more than 5,000,000 British women, more than one-ninth of the whole population of the Kingdom. Yet with the demand for yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Comfort | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

After a 600-mile ride by truck from Warsaw to the southeasternmost corner of what was Poland and after surviving a German bombing raid there; after traveling by specially chartered Rumanian train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa, and after evading a German order for internment there; after aimlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Refugees | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Not all Poland's prominent refugees were as fortunate as the gold: > Still waiting to be released from internment in Rumania was 72-year-old former President Ignacy Moscicki. He has applied for permission to go to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was once a chemistry professor. The Rumanian Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Refugees | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

The island's small oil docks and ammunition dumps were clapped under guard. Veterans of World War I were given guard detail until one fell asleep at his post (oil dock) while smoking a cigaret, which dropped and caused a big grass fire. Veterans also showed a regrettable tendency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Paradise at War | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Paradise at War | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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