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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax. The end came on Sunday morning, September 3 when Kennedy sent a triple priority cable to Secretary Hull reporting that the British had moved up their ultimatum deadline to Hitler one hour. There would be war at n...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Diplomatique) on the radiator-grille. Every day he had to see at least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back to the U. S., three at a time and arranging to reopen their home at Bronxville, N. Y. (The other Kennedy homes, in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, Mass., are closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...convoy is imperative!" barked grey-haired Survivor Thomas McCubbin of Montclair, N. J. "Ninety destroyers have just been commissioned ... six billion dollars of United States Navy, and they cannot do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...week. The English Channel was closed south of the Downs by a minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund delivered some 100,000 British troops to the land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Highways Minister A. Stirling MacMillan of Nova Scotia quickly reeled in the third annual International Tuna Matches-between teams of British, French, Belgian, Cuban and U. S. fishermen-slated to take place off Wedgeport, N. S. last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moratorium | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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