Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Admiral Land, through his Senatorial mouthpiece: If the proposed neutrality bill became law, of 326 U. S. ships (2,150,000 gross tons), 130 (860,000 gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...
...Latvia the Balts were mostly merchants; in Estonia they were rich landlords and, until the recent land reforms, 600 German families had owned half the country; in Lithuania, they were mostly smalltime, fairly well-to-do farmers who had left Germany centuries...
Moreover, in what was once western Poland the Führer would make room for those who wanted land in the Polish Corridor. The hundreds of thousands of Poles in the Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania...
...peace. Foreign newsmen estimated that the "peace party" in the House of Commons did not number more than a score of the 615 M.P.s. No attempt was made by the British Government to silence the tongues of would-be peacemakers, and opinions which in other countries in wartime would land a man in jail were freely uttered. But both inside and outside Parliament, Britons learned that peace, like politics, makes strange bedfellows...
...driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into the no-man's-land between the Maginot Line and the Westwall...