Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard in Western Europe on Black Sunday, but soon after midnight, The Netherlands listened to wave after wave of thrumming, high-flying airplanes speeding southeast-by-east along the coast. (The neutral Netherlands next day duly "protested.") Monday brought word that some of these planes had "bombarded" Germany with 6,000,000 leaflets in German, telling A. Hitler's people...
...ways of looking at his neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...
With sandbags around its entrances, green shades over its windows, the House of Commons was garbed for war. Still cool, dressed in a black suit and wearing a wing collar, Mr. Chamberlain began, "I do not propose to say many words tonight." He said about 2,000. He spoke in a low voice, fiddled with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would...
...early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna" with the sabre cuts in her cheek. Their...
That night, the blackest night in Europe since Adolf Hitler was a corporal, he stepped into a black car with all its lights out and sped through Berlin's blackened streets toward the East, still muttering against the Jews...