Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BISMARCK EPISODE (219 pp.)-Captain Russell Grenfell - Macmillan...
...Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton battle-wagon-bigger and tougher than any British battleship afloat. The British Admiralty had been worrying about the German giant for months; now that she had slipped away from her Baltic anchorage, the Home Fleet would have a crack at her at last. When Flying Officer Suckling photographed the Bismarck from his Spitfire on a May afternoon in 1941, he touched off the greatest sea hunt in naval history...
...Bismarck Episode is a retired British naval officer's remarkably lucid account of the pursuit, cornering and sinking of the pride of Hitler's navy. An author of less background might have pulled out all the stops and wallowed happily but confusingly in the story's drama. Author Grenfell,* veteran of 30 years' service, including the Jutland and Dardanelles actions in World War I, sticks sternly to facts and understatement...
...Time for Decision. The most trenchant analysis of what is happening I heard from a one-armed, one-legged man who is leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party. Kurt Schumacher is Germany's toughest, most impassioned anti-Communist fighter. Says he: "Ever since Bismarck, resurgent nationalism in Germany has sooner or later looked toward
Sixty-six years ago, Prince Otto von Bismarck's Germany set up the first national "Sickness Insurance" plan, covering industrial workers. Kaiser Wilhelm I had proclaimed: "The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...