Word: overent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster.
The alarm which sent the gathered people scurrying to shelter was because of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance flight-no bombs dropped. The speech which had gathered the crowds was the first important official statement since Adolf Hitler's "final peace offer" on Oct. 6. It was made before...
To the British people these fulminations seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction...
> From Berlin it was announced that the Soviet Union would deliver to Germany, within the next two months, 1,000,000 tons of badly needed fodder. Skeptics, figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed...
Talk as the Germans and Russians might over expanding trade, up to this week no foreign correspondent in the Reich could report that he had seen the actual arrival of Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies...