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Content Peckham came to TIME as a Science and Medicine researcher in 1934 (a job her Bryn Mawr background in the sciences helped her land). But when Hitler goose-stepped his troops into the Rhineland two years later and TIME started building up its Foreign News staff for the storm to come, her firsthand knowledge of Europe made her a logical research-candidate for this expanded department. She has been helping to keep TIME'S Foreign News straight ever since...
...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...forces massed on both sides of the front last week, a successful drive to clean the Germans out of the Leningrad area would open the way to the Baltic States. If it succeeded, this operation would enable the Russian Air Force to plaster eastern Germany as heavily as the Rhineland was being punished by the R.A.F...
...appeasement died. On Sept. 1 German guns and bombs boomed forth the start of World War II. After Poland and the "phony war," Norway fell; Western Europe awoke-too late. On May 10, 1940, four years and two months after its first thin columns had marched into the Rhineland, the Wehrmacht roared into the Lowlands and France to Paris and the Armistice of Compi...
...same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility." As the Rhineland, Austria, Sudeten, and Czechoslovakia fell in simple order, the aggrandizement of Hitler drew outraged warnings from Washington. And in the Far East, we hurled verbal brickbats at Japanese participation in the "China Incident," warned Japan, threatened Japan, re-warned Japan, all to no avail...