Word: helgoland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ecstasy. Two-and-a-half hours later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb...
This was flattery. What followed was intended to impress Hungary's dictator. In a grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...
...final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance is there that Germany may be appeased by being given some British mandated territory? Is anything going to be done about Germany's refortification of Helgoland in violation of the Versailles Treaty and in direct menace to Britain? Is Germany coming to the next Locarno Conference to which are also invited Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium? As these questions emerged in debate, Captain Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor...
While Anthony Eden continued his rest cure in the country last week, his Parliamentary Undersecretary Lord Cranborne added to Britain's nervous tension by confirming reports in the House of Commons that the island of Helgoland, Germany's famed pre-War fortress in the North Sea, was being secretly fortified by the Nazi Government...
...Neither the much discussed New York or Boston harbor and navy yard is designed or equipped to act as a fleet base," the Admiral declared. "Naval opinion is and has long been unanimous that Narragansett Bay, with Block Island for its Helgoland, with one of the finest harbors in the world, and located farthest East, towards any possible enemy's lines, is the logical base...