Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Angly was further charmed when he discovered that the "Captain Cambridge" who, in a driving rain across muddy fields, showed him through a British blockhouse and then was left on duty there while his Colonel took the newsmen to cosy tea, was Queen Mary's nephew, Lord Frederick Cambridge...
...Mr. Stoneman also wrote about "a British officer with one of the most famous names in England" who went rabbit-snaring by night with two poacher privates, got caught by French gendarmes and charged 1,000 francs (which he would...
...Liverpool on Sept. 2: repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict. Mr. Anderson was at dinner when the explosion occurred. He had nothing to say about what he thought caused the blast...
...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...
...what the Anderson story brought to the heart of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Adolf Hitler. Hitherto personally muted since war began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn...