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Word: berlins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pact concretely provided only for German credits for Russian supplies and for "consultations" if peace should be refused. In Berlin, inspired stories promised Russian planes on the Western Front; in London the dominant reaction was relief; in Rome it was uneasiness. But in Moscow, Times Correspondent George Eric Rowe Gedye, noted readers waiting in their queues-more than a quarter-mile long-to buy Pravda, read the German-Russian peace proposal, gripped with "fear that they were about to be dragged into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...bitter economic war that Great Britain was waging against Germany last week, as Sir John Simon made clear in his budget message (see p. 24). That Germany would fight back as ruthlessly was made equally clear when blockade-scared Berlin announced that armed merchantmen would be sunk without warning (see p. 34). There was good reason for Germany's retaliatory step, because Britain had already made gains in its economic offensive. Life in Germany was becoming increasingly grim. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Housewives had to spend hours daily standing in line for supplies. It was no longer possible to entertain at meals, unless the guests brought their own food. At Berlin's big Kurfurstendamm sidewalk cafes, a few brave souls occasionally sat in the dark with their beer, but most Berliners spent their evenings at home, trying to read by carefully shaded lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...darkness of Berlin's streets women were mishandled. But prostitutes complained that their business was ruined because of the darkness and shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...British Army and Navy (along with the French) have not undertaken any great decisive action at the front or on the seas (see p. 31). But even if and when they do, even if some great attack should sweep the Germans out of the ocean, some air armada lay Berlin in the dust, some huge offensive run the Reich's soldiers all the way through Prussia and chase Herr Hitler off his cliff at Berchtesgaden, it may well be that these are not the deeds of which Britain will be proudest in World War II. It may be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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