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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...striking through The Netherlands was compelling. With the Belgian border fortified against him almost as strongly as the French, the Dutch dike was his weakest target. His objective would not necessarily be the turning of the Allied flank but acquisition of bases for planes and submarines much closer to Great Britain than his present bases, for intensified warfare upon British shipping and the supply line of the British Expeditionary Force in France. With some 200 miles cut from their round trips to English Channel naval bases and industrial centres, Nazi bombers could be given fighter escorts, and fuel would...
Mass bombing, probably by night, is a spectre that has overhung Great Britain for ten solid weeks. Every Briton has spotted the hole that he will go to when it comes. Every one supposes that, with all the time there has been to make ready, Air Raid Precautions will save the civilian population from such horrors as were seen in Barcelona and Madrid...
...where adversaries are hardly at grips, it is hard to grip war's facts. Most tangible important fact of last week was the statement (upon being landed safely in Great Britain) of Captain F. C. P. Harris of the freighter Clement, sunk early last month off South America's east coast. Captain Harris and his first engineer, W. Bryant, certified that the Nazi raider which kept them aboard five hours after sinking their Clement was the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. This identity could still be doubted by people who know that German sailors wear bogus hatbands some...
...Churchill made his weekly speech about the effectiveness of the effective British blockade of Germany's munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
...week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the frontiers of Holland and Belgium. To both these States the Nazis have given most recent and solemn guarantees. No wonder anxiety is great. No one believes one word Hitler and the Nazi Party say and therefore we must regard that situation as grave. . . . If we are conquered, all will be enslaved and the United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of man. If we are not destroyed, all these...