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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport of Esbjerg, 40 miles from the German border, injuring twelve and killing one (a woman). Danish fishing boats blundered into German mine fields and sank. Off the Swedish coast a Greek steamer struck a German mine, sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Determined Band | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Bolivia, not quite over the shock of losing its dictator, half-German Germán Busch, by suicide (Time, Sept. 4), was the only Latin-American country to get the jitters. It restricted imports, curtailed gold shipments, prohibited speculation. But its tin and copper were expected to boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Colombia expropriated all commercial aviation, most of which was German- owned, -staffed, -piloted. Minerals began moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation is, for us, the destruction of civilization." Author Remarque, whose All Quiet on the Western Front was the most famed novel about World War I, had little to say about World War II. Although he lost his German citizenship last year, has no country, and travels on a Swiss identification card, he had nothing but sympathy for the German people. "Poor Germany," he moaned. "I cannot fight against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

March 22. Hitler seized from Lithuania the onetime German port of Memel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Last Words | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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