Word: antis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news was flashed to every newspaper in London. No editor could fail to grasp its meaning: the Navy was acutely fearful of being bombed. Leader articles were quickly written. Appearing soon in London were such headlines as "All Anti-Aircraft Guns in Fleet Manned." Then over tickers in every Fleet Street news office came a notice...
Even as the Foreign Minister traveled through Germany on his way back, an anti-Polish Nazi diplomatic and press barrage was going full blast. A Polish-British treaty, said Herr Hitler's diplomats and newspapers, would be considered an unfriendly act against the Third Reich. Furthermore, the signing of such a treaty was likely so to incense the Führer that, instead of asking merely for the return of the Free City of Danzig and a road across the Polish Corridor as he is now doing, Aggrandizer Hitler would raise the ante and want Polish Silesia, a slice...
...Shortly before I left the Admiralty it became necessary to give orders to man anti-aircraft guns of the fleet so as to be ready for anything that might happen. Long before guests came aboard this ship 16 anti-aircraft guns could have given a warm welcome to anyone who happened to come this...
Lightning. More specific reason for the manning of naval anti-aircraft came in another official leak. INS Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker reported that the British Admiralty apparently had learned of Nazi plans for a "demonstration" bombing flight of 500 German planes just to give Britons some idea of what might be in store for them later. The Admiralty was evidently convinced that German military leaders would try out the Douhet "lightning stroke air attack" theory of war and that the first stroke would be an attempt to immobilize the British Home Fleet...
...Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took only twelve hours for anti-British trouble to break...