Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army. Old line officers never got over their suspicion of his unorthodox methods. Contemporary experts agree that the Dardanelles campaign, the attempted relief of Antwerp that held up the German advance on Paris in 1914, were brilliantly conceived, weakly executed. Purpose of the Dardanelles campaign as Churchill saw it was more than an attempt to help Russia gain access to the Mediterranean: it was to swing fence-sitting Italy to the Allied side, win the tremulous Balkans away from Germany. Defending himself after the failure with biting eloquence, Churchill used the phrase "gamble" in connection with the Naval Plan, later...
Cabinet. Last week's news of the German-Russian Pact put Mr. Churchill in his best vein, inspired a note of confidence he has scarcely expressed so firmly since the Boer War. Gone in an instant were the generous ideals and humane motives that Communism professed to accept, vindicated in the same instant were: 1) his distrust of Russia, 2) his fear of Germany, 3) his criticisms of the Prime Minister's delay, 4) his attacks on Munich as paving the way for a new crisis. Vindicated above all was his vision of the ideal British Empire...
...ideal of liberty, "for your freedom and ours." They talked, as 600,000 reservists gathered to join the 1,500,000 already under arms, of the strategy that might be used, of a shuttle service of air attacks-British and French planes, starting from France, bombing German munitions plants and industrial centres, landing in Poland to refuel and bomb their way back. Levelly, the semi-official Kurjer Czerwony summed up the Polish state of mind: "Poland, calm and watchful, awaits Berlin's choice of peace...
...resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda its people were hearing from over the border. One German radio report had it that a certain retired Polish Army captain had been leading forays against Germans in Poland. Polish officials investigated, found that the captain had been dead for two years. Commented the radio: "Such incidents could only, therefore, have been perpetrated by a ghost, for which the Polish...
...everything about Italy last week was curious. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced to the people, some editors elaborately explained that after all Fascism was a proletarian doctrine, so why shouldn't it march with Russia? The newspaper of Party Secretary General Achille ("the Panther Man") Starace called the deal "pure Machiavellianism" (much admired by Fascists) and hinted that Italy had thought...