Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem had been to break up the bomber formations by diving on them, then shooting rear machine-gunners before proceeding to cut down the Vickers Wellingtons one after another. One of Colonel Schumacher's young men was credited with getting three...
...BRITAIN IS AT WAR - Harold Nicolson-Penguin (25?). Semi-propaganda for the literate: the British argument put with skill and fervor by a ringside spectator of British foreign policy since Versailles. The next Peace Conference will have a fighting chance of fairness, Nicolson thinks, only if a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished at their leisure and at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. For implementing a future society of nations, he proposes (less convincingly) that all civil and military aircraft be operated by the "League...