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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
...entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called the boys Adolf, Rudolf, Heinrich and Hermann, and often bragged about splashing beer in the faces of the best...
...Spunkiness of the small nations clustered around Germany was one of the best clues to Europe's rapidly changing lineup. Defenseless Norway dared to disregard a strong German protest that the internment of the Nazi prize crew that captured the U. S. freighter City of Flint was an unfriendly act. Little Yugoslavia mustered enough independence to send home unsatisfied a Nazi trade delegation that had tried to increase delivery of goods to Germany. Rumania, hardest-pressed of the Balkans, felt secure enough from Nazi wrath to decrease her oil deliveries from 4,100 tons to less than...
Stout, heavy-jawed, small-eyed Viscount Rothermere sat on a front bench at the justice's left while his attorneys, headed by tall, beak-nosed King's Counsel Sir William Jowitt, vigorously charged that the plaintiff had no moral right to bring into court as evidence confidential letters, some of which they say she took off her employer's desk without his knowledge. Counsel added feelingly that Lord Rothermere had no idea that she kept photostats of highly confidential material at any time...
Snitching letters and keeping photostats are what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that...