Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weeks before the Squalus went down, the guilty valve failed to open properly but had never failed to close. It was disassembled, supposedly put in perfect order. On the Squalus and her sister boats, this valve is outside the hull, near the conning tower and invisible to those inside, who...
Last week Captain William R. Munroe of the Squalus board asked Witness Naquin what would have happened if such a device had been in use. Slowly and damningly, Oliver Naquin replied: "I believe such a device could have prevented this tragedy."
Nazi rumor had it last week that stubborn Ibn Saud, most listened-to of Arab nationalist leaders, and Great Britain, most respected of Western powers in the Near East, were on the outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises...
Last week in Cardiff, Wales, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told 10,000 followers that he was no seer, that if they wanted to know what the future had in store for Europe they might as well go to Old Moore, the astrologer-author of a popular British almanac, as to...
Vladimir Poliakoff (Augur), White Russian newspaperman who snoops around odd corners of European chancelleries and sometimes pulls out something good, last week reported to the New York Times that British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had sent, through an unnamed emissary, to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop an odd but...