Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economically they are almost as dependent on Germany as they are on Britain and France. Next to Britain, Germany is the largest buyer of Danish butter, eggs and cattle. From Norway, Sweden and Finland, Germany buys ores, whale oil and timber, supplying them with machinery, chemical goods and ships. In...
? Said Herr Hitler three years ago in N?g: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in prosperity" (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936).
Emotionally most of the northern neutrals sympathized with the Allies. In Stockholm sentiment was frankly pro-British. The Netherlands, fearful of Germany, prayed, guarded its frontiers, laid in food supplies, was ready to flood the lowlands if the worst came. (Germany, also fearful, had electrified the barbed wire on its...
Significance. For the moment Stalin's interest is to keep the Red Army sitting on Russia's western marches until Hitler smashes Poland thoroughly. When that happens, if Hitler restores Germany's 1914 borders, Stalin might get some fat slices of pre-War Russia just for sitting still. And best...
Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call...