Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Parliament bandied witticisms, almost forgetting there was a war in Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
...repeal hastens to add that he is against Fascism and all its works whereas he has patently adopted a know-nothing, believe-nothing attitude toward the perils of Fascism, feeling that to do so may save him from the perils of war. With emotion thus muddled, Congressional argument grew equally...
...Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
...have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding, mostly by night to escape the eyes of aviation, grew heavier and heavier. Also heavier grew the atmosphere of suspense as the Allies watched corresponding mobilization behind the Westwall...
Canceling few scheduled books, British publishers pushed books on war background and looked for new ones, issued many a reprint such as Aurel Kolnai's The War Against the West. At the same time, demand grew for escapist romances...