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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yet last week-of all weeks-with every one expecting Adolf Hitler's death rain to begin momentarily, perhaps from closer bases in The Netherlands, out spoke six-foot Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, one of Britain's most outspoken and respected scientists. He saw Madrid and Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: ARP Bombed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"Undoubtedly, Scapa Flow was not submarine-proof and it would have been submarine-proof, in my opinion-and I am sure it is the opinion of the whole service -if Mr. Churchill had been in office a few months before the war. There would have been no question of any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"We have been agreeably surprised that ten weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"They [the Nazis] have not chosen to molest the British Fleet, which has awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during last week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

As if in direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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