Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet."
It was three days before the Hitler "peace ultimatum'' had been delivered and it was just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had virtually turned down the Hitler, terms in advance (see above). The "Father, of the House," an M.P. now for almost 50 years, thought Mr. Chamberlain'...
Describing a night fusillade, the New York Times War Correspondent G. H. Archambault caught the eerie nature of this war of waiting: "A watcher in some trench may fire at what he imagines to be shadowy shapes crawling toward him. His shot proves contagious. Machine guns begin their battle, field...
"But the planes hadn't really gone away. They doubled back, and flying along as low as 200 feet, opened up their machine guns. The women, in absolute panic, tried to run away. The ones who fell down from fear apparently escaped. But two were killed.
"I've never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful...