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...Only 6.3% believe the German story that Athenia was sunk by the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: What the U. S. Believes | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...lives taken at sea by Germany was the greatest for any week of the war to date. Twenty-one ships totalling 93,300 tons of Allied and neutral shipping went to the bottom. More than 200 persons were killed, some 100 of them in one sinking which rivaled the Athenia as the war's foremost "atrocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: In-Fighting | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...

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

Likely reason for the ban on Social Justice: in recent issues it fulminated against "international gold-capitalists," defended totalitarian economy, espoused the Nazi claim that Athenia was sunk by the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Athenia case is now the Churchill case and the Churchill case has developed into the British case. It is now a question of whether proven criminals are to continue to be tolerated in such a high official position or whether the indignation of the world is stronger than the unscrupulousness of a notorious British liar. There is no doubt, Mr. Churchill, that you will be found guilty by any court of justice-now you are standing before the judgment chair of a world tribunal. The accused, Winston Churchill, now has the floor. . . . Stand, rascal, and answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Revival: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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