Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three American steel tubes; and a secret code. The set was not so good; had to have some German parts put in. The Germans carried it back into Germany, and the Britons at once began sending in the closest secrets of their Government...
Chapter 3: At the Border. Next day a big limousine drew up near a little inn on the German-Dutch border at Venloo. At the wheel was a certain Dutchman named J. Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician, husband of a famous Dutch society painter, Mariettje van Rees, something of a getabout in Dutch circles; owner of a large house mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent...
Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...
...when Count Csáky, in the course of his travelogue, arrived at the Rumanian border, his tone grew tough. That country, he said, was the chief stumbling block to a Danubian bloc of neutrals. Until Rumania decided to listen to the "voice of the new era"-i.e., hand back to Hungary Transylvania, which Rumania took at the end of World War I-Hungary would refuse to play ball. "It is up to Rumania to accept the ideas of modern times and thus cooperate in forming a new order on the Danube," threatened the Foreign Minister. "Otherwise history will...
...What a marvelous thing it is to be able to roll along in this train in perfect peace!" said one of the Premier's aides. "The last time I was on a train back in Poland enemy aircraft dived every 20 minutes and machine-gunned the train...