Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 78,000 tons in the war's first week to 5,000 in the fourth (last) week dropped the, tonnage of Allied shipping sunk by German U-boats. So elated were the Brit ish that they announced: "They [U-boats] have found the pace too hot for them and have retreated from much-used shipping channels and are now forced to operate out in the open sea where the 'catch' is bound to be a much smaller one." The British pointed with pride to their convoy system, revealed that a flotilla of 15 freighters had arrived...
...Editor-in-Chief Hans Fritsche of the Nazi broadcasting services frothed at the mouth in German for 13 minutes over the German air replying to Mr. Churchill's claim of a scoreless week for the U-boats. Excerpt...
...Churchill-that bloated swine-spouts through his dirty teeth that in the last week no English ship has been molested by German submarines? He does, indeed...
...German youth was long ago convinced that Nazi destiny is more important than death; French and British youth have found their cause in Hitler's aggressions. But last week as 1,250,000 U. S. students of military age assembled peaceably on the grounds of 1,500 colleges and universities (see p. 46), they were still quite sure they had nothing to fight for, and some of them doubted whether any cause was worth the unpleasantness of dying...
Most emphatic undergraduate journal in the East was The Dartmouth, only daily newspaper in the town of Hanover, N. H., and a member of the Associated Press. Wrote Editor Thomas Wardell Braden Jr.: "In the last great war men of our age died:1) for democracy, 2) to crush German Imperialism. These words don't always mean what they say. We need to remember that there are ideals of truth and realism stronger than the fake ideals which are battering at us from Europe...