Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within two days, four Cabinet ministers went into the countryside to remind Britons, and, by implication, the dictator nations, that the British Empire was still tough. "The British Empire is so strong that it could not be defeated. Let those ponder who say we have grown weary with age and feeble in power. So they thought in 1914. They had a rude awakening," thundered Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm...
...sound that gave Europe the "Hitler jitters" was the tramp of marching Fascists in Barcelona. Despite the official assumption in France and Britain that the triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four...
...been reported that France and Britain would seize the Island of Minorca, still held by the Loyalists, and might even march into Spanish Morocco if the Italians did not evacuate Spain at the war's end. Radical Socialists believed M. Daladier to have confirmed these reports when, underlining his words, he said to them: "It is characteristic that British and French warships are now cruising in the Mediterranean along the coast of Spanish Morocco as well as near the Balearic Islands...
Production of antiaircraft guns and first-line fighting planes still lags below Britain's output in 1918. There has been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
...most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...