Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Defense. In Rumania, where Russian troops had reached the northeastern frontier; in Hungary, where a Nazi invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany...
...Admiral Sir William James, commander in chief of the Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...
...conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...
German reasons apparently were: 1) to delay action on the Western Front until Poland was carved; 2) to keep the Allied populations' war fever low, so that peace-after-Poland might more possibly...
...where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...