Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers, Bolivar's survivors could see the Yugoslav ship Carica Milica (6,371 tons) sinking not far away, also mined. Some hours later, in the same vicinity, down went the British Black hill, Torchbearer, Wigmore; the Swedish B. O. Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants, had an immediate effect...
...tons) blew up last week as it left Singapore harbor. William ("The Great") Nicola, U. S. magician, lost tons of paraphernalia but he, his wife & troupe were saved. A gang of 137 Chinese deportees had to be turned loose from their prison in Sirdhana's forward hold, recaptured later. The third officer of a Japanese steamer moored nearby rushed to the rescue in a small boat. Blamed for the disaster was a recently derelict British mine, broken loose from the Singapore naval base defense field...
...alleged German plan was to attack The Netherlands first, Belgium later-The Netherlands first because Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...year later she began her peace and neutrality offensive by offering her sprawling palace at The Hague for the First International Peace Conference, at which many of the present conventions governing war, the rights of neutrals, the principles of arbitration were first laid down...
...suited to Nazi tastes. Apparently he at first refused to speak, and this silence was explained away in Berlin by the Fiihrer's own newspaper, which said that Dr. Hacha was seriously ill and was not expected to leave his bed for a long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared...