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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Herr Goring's fliers set out to test one theory of air-minded modern militarists: that the plane is mightier than the battleship. If that theory can be proved true, the balance of power in Europe is far different from what it seems on paper. If the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

The Ark Royal is Great Britain's newest 22,000-ton aircraft carrier. Her loss, eight days after the torpedoing of the Courageous, would be a horrible blow to British morale as well as to the Navy. If she were still afloat, the British Admiralty was not tricked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

From Norway and Sweden, Britain gets wood pulp for explosive cellulose and newsprint. Fortnight ago Germany warmed to its work by sinking one Swedish and two Finnish pulp boats. Last week two more Swedish freighters got it (one of them after the captain had been taken aboard the U-boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: This Pest | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

"Mr. Churchill stated that no British ships had been molested during the last week. This statement is true, if Mr. Churchill does not regard the sinking of a ship as molestation." *A large proportion of Sweden's normal annual 8,000,000 tons of iron ore for Germany comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: This Pest | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Other student papers were more restrained, contented themselves with warnings and prayers. Said the Yale Daily News: "Secure from a military and economic standpoint, America will only become involved in the present war if she again heeds propagandist pleas to preserve democracy and stamp out Hitlerism. Let us be on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aye or Nay? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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