Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic, the blockading British had something to worry about...
France hailed the safe arrival from Halifax of the De Grasse, Champlain and Colombie in a convoyed group and French naval experts asserted that of 30 U-boats sent out in Germany's first subsea campaign, at least ten had been destroyed by Allied fire. This rate of loss, said the French, was greater than Germany's capacity to replace submarines...
...tenable Polish territories left in the world, was a question which his fleeing Government had no time to answer. Borkowski waited-until finally orders came from the New York Consulate. He was to relinquish his command to Chief Officer Franciszek Szudzinski and go by train to Halifax. The liner was to sail immediately for the same city under her new captain...
...they embraced him and said goodby, collected his 25 pieces of luggage, including a mattress and a mariner's clock, hung his marine glasses over one shoulder, hitched a leather brief case up under an arm, and with a raincoat rustling around his sea legs, entrained for Halifax...
...other event brought the war over seas. At 9:25 on a grey morning a black-hulled little freighter called City of Flint, usually carrying six passengers, sailed into Halifax with 223 survivors of the torpedoed Athenia. The flag was at half-mast...