Word: seaports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport of Esbjerg, 40 miles from the German border, injuring twelve and killing one (a woman). Danish fishing boats blundered into German mine fields and sank. Off the Swedish coast a Greek steamer struck a German mine, sank...
...face of it, the seizure of Danzig by Germany would mean no more than another Hitler conquest, another large Baltic seaport (of which Germany already has three), another 791 sq. mi. and 407,000 more Germans added to the Reich. To Poland the loss of Danzig would probably eventually mean the loss of the Polish Corridor and landlocked economic if not political domination by Germany...
Treated to a strange sight last week were antipodean U. S. tourists who happened to be in the cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished...
Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...
...pronounce the name of the Polish seaport which I for lack of a better pronunciation have been calling "Gardenia" (TIME, April...