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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weapon. For the first time in history, the antitrust division is ready, willing, able. In Theodore Roosevelt's trust-blustering days-13 years after the passage of the antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were 18 people in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Their major problem was to keep awake in the warm Washington afternoons. Last week Mr. Arnold had behind him upwards of 160 lawyers, all of them loaded with shrapnel and ready to fire...
...Some time ago the belligerent parties have declared they would not be unwilling to examine a reasonable and well-founded basis for an equitable peace. . . . We are ready to offer them our good offices. . . . We hope our offer will be accepted and that thus the first step will be taken toward establishment of a durable peace...
...Dutch defense plan, like the Polish, is one of strategic delay and retreat. No attempt could be made to save the northeastern provinces. First stand would be made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...
...area which can be made marshier by flood water from two big canals which enclose it on the west and south. But this sector would be the most passable for the Germans and here, in a drive for the higher ground at Hertogenbosch, Tilburg and Eindhoven, is where the first German assault could be expected. Gaining this foothold, the Germans could then press on to take Flushing and other coastal points south of the river deltas, enjoying the Dutch flood zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace...
Germany's first move, no doubt, would be a mass air attack aimed at all the Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old, though the pilots are heady and capable. Anti-aircraft defense is weak. Ground troops total less than 100,000 trained men, with 280,000 green reserves. So long as she did not tackle Belgium's Albert Canal and "Little Maginot" lines, and unless Belgium moved fast indeed to meet...