Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgium was suspiciously alert last week but denied having taken yet her most drastic defense step of all: pulling plugs in the Albert Canal to impede any German advance with a flood. The Dutch, however, did say they were flooding their country, at least experimentally, around Utrecht. Much weaker than...
Lord Fisher's biographer represents the Germans as scared to death in 1914-18 that the British would force the Baltic Gate, which they considered weak. He says they derided the British Navy's stupidity for not attempting it. It is not likely that such sentiments prevail now...
11:45 a-m "Can you help us if necessary? This guy still chasing us."
Blow of the week was struck by the British, who put out a story which, if widely circulated in Germany, might do more than 100 Allied divisions to put skids under A. Hitler & Co.
If true, the report constituted an amazing piece of research. Whether true or not, it constituted a terrific piece of propaganda, not only as showing the Nazi chiefs prepared to run, but because hoarding money outside Germany is a crime in Germany, punishable by death. Sure to be whispered inside...