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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kielce to Cracow, and after that to the angle between the Bug and Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan, holding 45 in reserve to smite the Germans after their supply lines and communications were extended. His own defense line would be less than 500 miles long instead of more than 1,000 miles. Even the Germans estimated it would take them...
Although the British censor passed several conflicting reports on this affair (see p. 25), a later "official report" set the gossip straight. A German squadron had indeed started over Chatham. Home fighters had indeed gone up. But so prompt were they, so excited their brother gunners below, that when they returned (after scaring off the German eagles) their own guns powed them. One British pilot crashed dead...
Appointed to perform this job was Ronald Hibbert Cross, M. P., 43, an Old Etonian with a War record in the Lancaster Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps and a public career closely parallel to that of President Viscount ("Czecho-Slovakia") Runciman of the Board of Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil...
...days the War had almost everything that in older and slower wars was more painfully and with more suffering acquired. It had a victory-the march of the German Army to the gates of Warsaw (see p. 18). It had a daring raid-the attack of British airmen on Germany's naval base (see p. 20). It had a cautious advance as French troops fought on German soil for the first time in 70 years (see p. 16). It had its casualties, refugees, wrecks, ruins. It had its propaganda ministries (see p. 25) and it had its first peace...
...Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news was already jamming the wires (see p...