Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within her three-mile limit. Italy protested too, but with a mildness explained by the fact that if Germany's exports (many of which go through Genoa and Trieste) are clamped down on, Italy may inherit Germany's foreign customers...
...black mark against the efficiency of German propaganda was the fact that 59% of the U. S. people believe little or nothing from Berlin. Other black marks against Dr. Goebbels' machine...
Declaring that the border incident was a "provocational shelling," Comrade Molotov asserted that the "concentration of Finnish troops near Leningrad not only creates a menace to Leningrad, but is, in fact, a hostile act against the U.S.S.R. . .. Therefore, the Soviet Government.. . proposes that the Government of Finland withdraw its troops without delay 20 to 25 kilometers (twelve to 15 miles) farther from the border of the Karelian Isthmus, thus preventing the possibility of a repeated provocation. Accept, Mr. Minister, the assurance of my perfect respect...
When talking about the war understating Britons sometimes refer to the "little difficulty we are having with Germany," the "current spot of bother" or the "Adolf agitation." Even the fact that magnetic mines and flying mine layers were about last week did not change the tone since few citizens of that seafaring island could be really worried about matters which they felt could be solved by their sailors and scientists...
What worried Londoners more than anything else last week was the fact that the British Isles went back on winter time and on that day came a 4:30 p.m., instead of a 5:30 p.m., blackout. That produced plenty of grumbling about stale air inside shuttered offices and renewed demands that the blackout be modified. Blackout grumbling caused London's first sizable wartime strike. Four hundred fifty trolley busmen refused to work until their schedules during blackouts were eased. By & large, however, life in England after two months was adjusted to wartime conditions...