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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland...
...crime first was planned in September and October 1938. In August 1939, the explosive case was built in. Seven days before the demonstration in the Bürgerbräu cellar he built in an explosive charge. Six days previous to the meeting Elser attempted for the first time to introduce the clockwork mechanism into the explosive chamber. He was unsuccessful...
...smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French authorities for the loan of a few peasants to ill treat...
...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...
...Senior Laborite M. P. Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, who has given the House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big, money-making Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Colonel Wedgwood has nevertheless recently howled about Britain's "ferocious income tax." As retrenchment he plans to move out of his sumptuous home and live in a trailer at Barlas-ton, near his constituency...