Word: clears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great shock of Russia's invasion of Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made...
...early control of the air is essential for quick victory. This was proved in Spain, where Germany tested many theories and where Franco took two years to get control of the air, then won hands down. By 1937, when General Brauchitsch took command at Leipzig, it was already pretty clear that to deliver a lightning blow Germany needed not only a superlative air force, but plenty of motorized strength...
...York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President Sudman: "I imagine the publicity was too much for them...
...Baldry's pithy two-page financial tipsheet, the Fortnightly Review. Editor Burton-Baldry, senior partner in a London brokerage house, had said in July: "War is not only unlikely, but almost impossible." With markets disrupted by an improbable war, the Fortnightly Review suspended publication "till the 'all clear' signal sounds...
...Beard makes it clear that modern boyhoods are no match for his, but he is far from thinking that modern youngsters are going to the dogs. The wiry 89-year-old declares his favorite remark applies as well to the present generation as to any of its predecessors: "I'd rather be an American boy," says old Dan Beard, "than President of the United States, or anything else in the world...