Word: gotha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite likely that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha will be "siwashed" a second time...
...remarkable that on p. 24 of TIME, Sept. 2 you refer in a footnote to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, apparently not remembering that his sister is shown on the cover of the same issue...
...Right. And a hearty reproof to the editor who failed to point it out specifically in TIME'S footnote, which said that "Saxe-Coburg-tmd-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only in 1917." (As a retort to that gazetting, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court attended a command performance of Shakespeare's comedy, The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha...
...German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, who had been gazetted out in 1915, was gazetted back again as Knight of the Garter. In the same year he became a leader of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family, which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only...
...headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless, the British faced a serious tactical...