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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Push? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

With the beginning of the present war in Europe, America braced itself for the flood of propaganda that all observers said was sure to come. It has come, and wise newspaper readers are quickly learning to gift out some of the more flagrant stories. But there is another source of propaganda harder to spot, though no less influential. It is in the American pulpit and university, always powerful molders of public opinion. Within the past few weeks, the leaders of religion and education in this country have spoken with an amazing unanimity in strong support of the Allies. If vehemence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVE CANEM | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Law for the Beaver | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...individual and all he has belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural law that applies to men and nations. These ideas, falling on the minds of men over the wide areas of nations build up into a mighty flood that sweeps away the hard won freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Belgium was suspiciously alert last week but denied having taken yet her most drastic defense step of all: pulling plugs in the Albert Canal to impede any German advance with a flood. The Dutch, however, did say they were flooding their country, at least experimentally, around Utrecht. Much weaker than the 'Belgians in fortifications along their frontier, the Dutch prepared if necessary to open their Zuider Zee dikes and inundate most of their central provinces, abandoning their entire northeast to the invader and taking national refuge in the Rotterdam-Utrecht-Amsterdam triangle. To give their waters time to rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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