Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All of which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search...
Regiments of the Guards* are in the B. E. F., garbed far differently from the bear-skinned beauties whom tourists have seen on their chargers at Whitehall or clumping over the cobbles of Windsor Castle. Bearskins are at home, and the B. E. F. is clad in drab battle costumes...
Also on French soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A...
Rains continued, the rivers rose and though evidence of continued German concentration was reported by reconnaissance, the Western Front appeared due for another long lull while the war of blockades was intensified over the North Sea.
Nazi Hitler, many Scandinavians feared last week, may shortly begin trying to force Sweden, Denmark and Norway into vassalage to Germany by the same threatening tactics which Bolshevik Stalin has employed successfully in recent weeks to vassalize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once...