Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated...
Deepest effect of Britain's blockade of German exports-formal proclamation of which was delayed until the neutrals had sounded off-will be much like the trade-hampering effect of the U. S. cash-&-carry law, but working in reverse. Customers will certainly not take title to goods ordered from Germany until the goods are landed safely on the buyer's doorstep. And customers will be reluctant to order German goods, knowing them to be subject to delay or confiscation on their way overseas...
Burned by the fire of War I, the U. S. shuns the blaze of War II. Believing themselves to have also been well singed by the Allied and German propaganda of War I, the U. S. people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's most honest press can learn for them about War II. How skeptical the U. S. public is about war news, even that originating from its own Capital, was made digit-plain last week by a FORTUNE survey of U. S. credulity...
...black mark against the efficiency of German propaganda was the fact that 59% of the U. S. people believe little or nothing from Berlin. Other black marks against Dr. Goebbels' machine...
...Only 6.3% believe the German story that Athenia was sunk by the British...