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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Berlin's swank West End shopping section, the proprietress of a bakery whose husband is at the front celebrated by giving away all her bread and cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

"The report was a shameless, frivolous trick of the British Ministry of lies and the British Secret Service," cracked the Chancellery's angry denial, which all Berlin afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

In London the Berlin Chancellery's charge that British agents launched the armistice hoax was called "fantastic" at the British Foreign Office, where an official spokesman cracked: "The allegations should be dealt with in the special jokes department." Nevertheless, it was a pretty compliment, and an eminently justifiable one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

"What I want from Mr. Chamberlain is complete frankness. . . . What Mr. Chamberlain has got to declare now is whether he is going to bomb Berlin or not. If he does the consequences will go far beyond our maddest intentions and will be quite different from anything either we or Herr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pluggers for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

> Disagreeing with Playwright Shaw was Biologist Julian Huxley, who chose the London Times as his forum: "We cannot survive as a great power unless we smash Hitlerism; but if we are to prevent the growth of a new Hitlerism later, we must plan some kind of new international order." Scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pluggers for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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