Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slow hum of Zeppelins at night was World War I's high horror note for civilians of Britain and France.* This war's note was so confidently expected to be the shattering bellow of dive-bombers that congested areas of France and England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...
...extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that Britain and France could be divided-"England will fight to the last Frenchmen-remember that, you Frenchmen...
...Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The last of these she was pitifully unprepared...
...Rhodes scholars prepared to board ship for England and Oxford, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, U. S. secretary for the scholarships, suddenly notified them to cancel their reservations, announced that the Rhodes trustees had suspended the scholarships for the war's duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...