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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

As her 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Pravda's masters of invective foamed at the mouth. In an editorial labeled "Buffoon in the Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brazen Provocation | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

His speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DANUBE: Puppet Strings | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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