Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old, though the pilots are heady and capable. Anti-aircraft defense is weak. Ground troops total less than 100,000 trained men, with 280,000 green reserves. So long as she did not tackle Belgium's Albert Canal and "Little Maginot" lines, and unless Belgium moved fast indeed to meet her in The Netherlands, Germany should have little trouble slicing through the smallest neutral to the Channel...
Germans noted that the Führer repeated exactly the "historic phrases" he hurled against Poland on Sept. 1, the day the German Army began talking to the Poles with bombs and bullets. The talk about a long war was tempered by the announcement that unexplained "favorable developments in the food situation" made it possible to increase somewhat the tiny food rations on which the Fatherland subsists (TIME, Oct. 9). Germans were promised that during December, "in honor of the holiday season," they will each be able to buy an extra pound of meat, three-quarters of a pound...
...last week's European happenings were bad news for Germany. Her friends became increasingly critical. Her allies appeared lukewarm, if not positively fickle. Her enemies were unsparing, and, after the Munich bombing, her home front appeared far from secure. In sum, it looked as though Nazi Germany, having long feared and dreaded encirclement, had managed to kick herself in her domestic stomach and encircle herself...
...Before long seven of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet members had arrived. Just out of an all-day conference with the Führer were Commander in Chief of the German Army General Walther von Brauchitsch; Commander of the Navy Grand Admiral Erich Raeder; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German Armed Forces, and, most important of all, Air Minister Hermann Göring. He sported a row of shining medals on his resplendent braided uniform, and was flanked by his trusted adjutant general of fliers and ja-man, Major General Karl Bodenschatz...
...Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy's guests were not disappointed this time...