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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He next referred to the formal, legal basis of the country's present-day Neutrality. He would, he said, issue two proclamations: one of his own which "would have been done even if there had been no neutrality statute," and one required by the statute, to which he paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could not.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Chill Is Off | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Meat dealers noted with satisfaction that only the meat and oil industries (as in 1914) are in a position to handle increased production immediately without sweeping rearrangement of facilities. In Chicago, sardonic Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, told a rally of 12,000 sympathizers that Poland could yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

>To its first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Out of a welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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