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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...hrer Hitler was a "cornered maniac," "this monstrous apparition," "that evil man." The Führer and his Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were "those marvelous twin contortionists" and Dr. Paul Joseph Göebbels and his Ministry for Propaganda and Enlightenment were labeled a "leather-lunged propaganda machine" which indulges in "bloodcurdling threats...
...General Göring-beg pardon, Field Marshal Göring, who is one of the few Germans who has been having a pretty good time for the last few years-says that we have been spared so far because Nazi Germany is so humane. . . . When we remember the bestial atrocities they have committed in Poland, we do not feel we wish to ask for any favors...
...Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall...