Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France grow solicitous of the Bear, who no longer needs them. A year ago these "civilized" democracies (?) discussed using a pound of Bear flesh for appeasement meat. Hitler smacked his lips. The Ukraine! Sick, friendless and with Nippon gnawing his tail, the Bear bid fair to be devoured, and England would have agreed to the death and enslavement of the Russian people in exchange for some juicy trade to enrich England's already-too-rich ruling class...
Miraculously, he has successfully appeased the Devourer by feeding to him the appeasers! Subsequent months will see Stalin acquiesce as Hitler devours Poland and the Balkans, first step in the strangulation and reduction to third-class powers of England and France, with or without...
...Aquitania, French Normandie, Italian Roma and other ships at other ports were similarly searched (but none so thoroughly). The President, with a perfectly straight face, referred to the distant cases of the British-built privateers Alabama and Shenandoah in Civil War days, which fitted out at sea after leaving England and preyed on Union shipping, thus establishing U. S. claims against England. But the Washington Post, with delicious euphemism, seemed to state the President's purpose more exactly when it editorialized: "... This inconvenience and danger [to the Bremen] was merely a by-product of the far greater inconvenience...
California aircraft companies readied 70 bombing planes for England and France. Telephone service to Europe was temporarily cut off; only calls to the Bank of England went over the cable to London, only official and banking calls to Paris...
...prophets were not dopesters and gossips. So many well-informed foreign correspondents were aware of the situation (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938, et seq.) that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and France. Soon after Munich, Gilbert Redfern, Warsaw correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, predicted: "Within a year or so we will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would...