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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before midnight a Polish major arrived with the required order from General Rommel, set off escorted by a group of German officers for Modlin. Two German privates held high between two poles a broad white banner lit by glaring portable searchlights. Modlin was given until 6 a. m. to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: Deutschland über Warsaw | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Telling the House of Commons about a personal wireless message addressed to him by the submarine commander who sank the Philbine, Mr. Churchill said: "I was in some doubt at the time as to what address I should direct my reply. However, he is now in our hands and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Heroes & Heroics | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

The Ark Royal is Great Britain's newest 22,000-ton aircraft carrier. Her loss, eight days after the torpedoing of the Courageous, would be a horrible blow to British morale as well as to the Navy. If she were still afloat, the British Admiralty was not tricked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Bombing battleships in motion on the high seas was proved possible and, to the vessel, disastrous, as long ago as 1920 by the late General "Billy" Mitchell of the U. S., who bombed the condemned ex-German battleship Ostfriesland off the Virginia Capes. During the Spanish Civil War, Loyalist bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

German youth was long ago convinced that Nazi destiny is more important than death; French and British youth have found their cause in Hitler's aggressions. But last week as 1,250,000 U. S. students of military age assembled peaceably on the grounds of 1,500 colleges and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aye or Nay? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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