Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...Millions of people in north Europe with gas masks at their belts or dangling from their elbows, fingered these grisly disguises, put them on when alarms sounded, but never needed them. War's worst horror did not come; no gas fell anywhere...
...many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...
...that might bring about war's end: the internal collapse of Germany. Outside the Reich, newspapers carried dispatch after dispatch pointing toward such a possibility. From Zurich came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops...
...show. Argentina in particular hemmed, took exception, offered substitute phrases. The final draft, a reluctant Argentine compromise, postulated the 21 countries' common interest, provided that in time of crisis the signatories would consult each other. When war broke out fortnight ago, Argentina did a complete about-face and put herself in the forefront of the rush to implement the Lima Declaration...