Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only amazement was added to horror last week by the continued insistence of official Berlin that the torpedo must have been British, fired to arouse U. S. indignation. Most charitable theory entertained by neutrals about "Atrocity No. 1" of World War II was that, while Germany's U-boats may have had orders to prey like gentlemen, the Athenia's destroyer was a Nazi hothead who could not control his trigger finger. Suspicion that a sharp order to other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain...
...Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed...
...them did not apparently worry the Poles. They figured that J. Stalin was merely planting his men to make sure A. Hitler did not forget to stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...
...moment Germany's coal ran short-"and I might say at that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that Britain and France could be divided-"England will fight to the last Frenchmen-remember that, you Frenchmen...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...