Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To most good Germans it was something of a shock. Had not they been told for six years that Russia was their bitterest enemy? But that didn't mean the Pact wasn't a wonderful thing. Did it not plainly mean peace? Now they would get from the...
On Thursday, when it got about that the British Parliament had been called in special session, that Great Britain and France were commencing to mobilize in earnest, the German people began to sober down. Now the streets were filled with marching men, not only youths but some of their fathers...
On Friday, when Chancellor Hitler returned grim-faced to Berlin from Berchtesgaden and called off his Tannenberg speech-scheduled for Sunday-things seemed to take a turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi...
>Safest spot near London was judged to be Harrow, because the steeple on its hill is German aviators' prime landmark approaching London from the Channel and they would not likely bomb it down.
Munich. To Churchill, the military man, the loss of Czecho-Slovakia was bad enough; to Churchill, the political moralist it was frightful. Coming after the abdication crisis (when Churchill had attacked Prime Minister Baldwin, been hauled down in the House), the Munich pact unnerved him as the World War never...