Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicos with second sight could already see Winston Churchill snuggled into a reorganized Chamberlain Cabinet, probably as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he filled brilliantly during the World War. In any case, with this great reconciliation a united Conservative Party could brave not only the perils of German aggression, but the prospects of a general election in the fall...
...hrer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit...
...match Polish Navy week at neighboring Gdynia, President Greiser, conveniently a lieutenant in the German Navy, invited a naval delegation from East Prussia to dedicate a Danzig monument to German sailors lost in the World War. The delegation, including the Reich's Rear Admiral Fleischer and a company of marines with a brass band, arrived in Danzig last Sunday. There were speeches and a parade, all surprisingly nonbelligerent. The Poles ignored the move, and sly Danzig Nazis reasoned that if they could get away with one "foreign" naval detachment in the Free City, they might get away with more...
Anti-Semitic Nazis, invoking their own version of the Mosaic law-a consul for a consul-last week countered Britain's expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: "Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation...
...German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made...