Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners were treated much too well. According to international law, officers do not work. After 6:30 roll call, the men clean the camp, prepare their own and officers' food. During the day they swim, play games, get brown under the Canadian sun and fat on Canadian milk & butter. At night a Nazi colonel, the highest-ranking officer, leads them in a German song fest. Except for 75 Canadian guards, the Germans might be on vacation...
...British Isles, was followed last week by little action. Nazi planes attacked a few ships off the Irish coasts. But while Germany claimed that Britain's west-coast ports were clogged with shipping in a huge maritime traffic jam, Britain reported that food imports from Ireland (butter, eggs, cattle) were normal. Fact was, the "traffic jam" in Britain's western ports was due to the arrival there during the past months of greater masses of foods and war materials from abroad than at any time since...
Plundered Larder. On the verboten list last week were placed all the meringue, almond paste and cream cakes dear to the palates of Frenchmen. A drastic shortage of sugar, flour, cream and butter caused the percentage of sweetening in cakes to be reduced to 10% of the contents, and the sale of all pastry to be prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing...
...choice, almost every Englishman could see clearly last week, had always been between guns and butter. That choice had not always been so clear to all Englishmen. In 1934 underfed Germany, faced with a choice of no butter or guns, chose guns. In 1934 well-fed England, faced with a choice of less butter or guns, chose butter. The issue was survival. Last week Germany in victory, Britain in jeopardy each gauged the consequences of its choice. Last week the U. S., nursing a seedling realism, also appraised those consequences in terms of the first serious threat to its continental...
...critical year was 1934. In 1934 England was still ahead of Germany in planes. In 1934 England by an effort might have kept its air lead over the Nazis. But butter was king, not guns. The League of Nations, said the Liberal and Labor Parties, made rearmament superfluous. England did not rearm in 1935 either. For this, Author Kennedy thought no one leader or party was to blame. Said he: "The blame . . . must be put largely on the British public. For 1935 was the year of the General Election." British voters postponed armament...