Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler proclaimed to Germany: "The German people know that the British people as a whole cannot be made responsible for all this. It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust, which, in all peoples of the world, desires to see only obedient slaves and which hates our new Reich because it sees in it a model for social work which it fears because it might prove contagious in their own country...
...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
...dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through Poland, another World War was only a few hours away...
...Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P. When war came last week they had mapped detailed plans down to the last patch of adhesive tape for the treatment of bombed civilians. Far more flexible and expensive than the French and German plans for civilian medical care, the British war system will cost ?27,000,000 and guard the health of citizens more vigilantly than in times of peace...
...listeners, the most flavorsome department of radio's war coverage has been MBS's "Propaganda Roundup," transcription of foreign broadcasts in English. From these and from foreign language broadcasts monitored and translated, the U. S. public has had an earful of typical atrocity stories, mainly from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged...