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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France to the Atlantic, sending off raid alarms in cities to which the war had only been headlines and absent men. Allied reconnaissance pushed far and frequently into Germany. German communiques made a point of mentioning that Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot...
...position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland...
...indignant editorial in the Comintern newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") usually denotes the Soviet Government's extreme annoyance, one in the Government-owned paper Izvestia ("News") indicates growing impatience, an official protest demonstrates complete exasperation...
Frontier Incident. This editorial was strongly reminiscent of a similar one directed at Poland's rulers and printed 48 hours before the Red Army marched into Eastern Poland in September. Reports from the Finnish-Russian frontier the next day were timed to give it further significance...
...pulled to a stop, a German in civilian clothes stepped out of the cafe and made a mysterious signal. At once a gang of civilians rushed across the border from Germany, firing wild shots (one of which killed Mynheer Klop). The civilians bundled their captives into another car, and drove across the border. Secret Agents Stevens and Best were arrested...