Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roots. Amazing it was that one of the most violent and hasty uprootings of history did not evoke more protests, or even, apparently, more tears. The Balts seemed to take their removal to the Reich stoically, or even as a matter of course...
...Catholics and as logical Latins, Italians viewed with dismay last week the physical retreat before advancing Bolshevism of the 118,000 Germans who abruptly left the Baltic States on orders of the Führer (see p. 21). Even the carefully controlled press began to express this feeling...
...metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along the entire front, perhaps were readying for an attack in force. Into action went French artillery -slim 75s, big-mouthed 155s, even a few long-snouted railroad guns of big calibre, firing across the line for the first time since the war began...
Sept 17, 1939, was another dark day for British sea power. Surprisingly lost that day was the aircraft carrier Courageous. Last week an even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially...
...direction it likes, and the course of torpedoes can be further directed by means of gyroscopes in their tails. The target's course and position can be calculated from, hydrophones. But warships have hydrophones too, and the British claim they can detect a submarine's position even when her motors are not running. Why Royal Oak or her escort failed to do so was another question. Evidently somebody blundered...