Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet...
...three days before the Hitler "peace ultimatum'' had been delivered and it was just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had virtually turned down the Hitler, terms in advance (see above). The "Father, of the House," an M.P. now for almost 50 years, thought Mr. Chamberlain's rejection a bit hasty. "I think it is very important," he said, "that we should not come to a too hurried conclusion." He did not want Great Britain to make any more enemies, particularly of Italy and Russia. He was even willing to keep an open mind about the possible impossibility...
...speech by A. Hitler used to be the signal for every Soviet station to go on the air and try to drown him out. By order of J. Stalin all Soviet stations were respectfully silent during the Reichstag speech (see p. 34) and Russian listeners who understood German heard every word.* Soviet comment was uniformly favorable, particularly as to the Führer's claim that Eastern Europe is now a sphere of Soviet-German influence in which they will tolerate no intervention by Britain and France...
...mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
Instead of helping Adolf Hitler last week by emerging as an "honest broker" to try to sell Britain and France a Nazi Peace (see p. 34), Premier Benito Mussolini left the Führer to speak exclusively for himself, plunged into strictly Italian (and peaceful) activities. Fascist newsorgans politely termed Herr Hitler's vague terms as so "constructive, realistic" that they ought to be accepted, but there was little conviction that they would be accepted, even if understood...