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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The massing of Red Russia's armies on the border east of them did not apparently worry the Poles. They figured that J. Stalin was merely planting his men to make sure A. Hitler did not forget to stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Such Is War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

First act of Britain's ministry was to have King George sign a contraband list, which was not made public before the U. S. State Department had looked it over. Under "absolute" contraband were "all kinds of arms, ammunition, explosives, etc.," and articles for using or making them; "fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Polite Strangulation | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week news from Europe took on its greatest change. Correspondents who step by step and hour by hour had reported the inevitably developing crisis, now found their stories crazily whirling and blurring. If the last weeks of peace had the solemnity of tragedy, the first days of World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Speed-up | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Old-Fashioned. Only Poland made no gestures toward the great gallery, broadcast no appeals for sympathy. Twenty-one days after the German-Russian pact, eleven days after the German invasion began, nine days after Britain's declaration of war, four days after Germany announced the capture of Warsaw, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Speed-up | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

The Marshal did not speak softly. He knew his audience. Cheering workmen wanted to hear of the victory. He told them: "German arms on land and in the air have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Aims | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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