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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Out of a welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

At 10 a.m. Adolf Hitler told the Reichstag : ". . . I and my Government sat there for two full days and waited until it should suit the Polish Government at last to send us a man with full powers. By last night they had not sent a plenipotentiary but they let us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Last Words | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

September 3 (Sunday). In Berlin at 9 a. m. Sir Nevile gave the German Government this message: "I have the honor . . . to inform you that unless not later than 11 a. m. . . . today . . . satisfactory assurances have been given by the German Government . . . a state of war will exist between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Last Words | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Shortly thereafter the Fent the ultimatum requests or to fulfill them. . . . A condition exists at our eastern borders which in effect amounts to war. . . . The German Government and the German people have assured the British people time and again that they are desirous of bringing about an understanding with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Last Words | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

By definition, the aim of science is not to produce but to know. Thus many "pure" scientists, who pursue knowledge for its own sake, do not consider the industrial and military technologists who apply other people's knowledge as scientists at all. The application may be far removed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science & War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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