Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come through the Dutch-Belgian door. The B. E. F. consists of a dozen divisions of troops mostly mechanized and motorized. There is one vehicle for each six men. A break-through by the Germans anywhere would be most effectively rushed to and met by the British mobile divisions -still called cavalry-and by motorized infantry...
Lord Gort, commander-in-chief of the B. E. F., lunched international news correspondents at B. E. F. headquarters-in the hotel of a small town still wearing scars of World War I. In dispatches delayed until last week he was reported as warning his guests against losing sight of the men amongst so many machines. Said he: "The man remains master of those machines and . . . from men . . . results will come. If the spirit of the men is not right the aircraft and tanks will never reach their destinations. The man remains foremost, last and all the time...
...raider on her return trip. He described an air of tension aboard after the ship cleared Belfast and Liverpool on Sept. 2: repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict. Mr. Anderson was at dinner when the explosion occurred. He had nothing to say about what he thought caused the blast...
...sixth of the population of Finland had fled from their homes last week, terrified lest a Russian invasion should follow up the still secret demands of Joseph Stalin. Peasants abandoned their farms along the Soviet frontier, the men joining the Finnish Army, the women and children plodding on foot to refugee camps in the interior. They had to walk because the Army was obliged to seize all horses and carts in the frontier districts for its service of supply. Most of the fleeing refugees left behind all their possessions, except what they could carry in a few bundles, but occasionally...
...Poland's prominent refugees were as fortunate as the gold: > Still waiting to be released from internment in Rumania was 72-year-old former President Ignacy Moscicki. He has applied for permission to go to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was once a chemistry professor. The Rumanian Government would gladly have released the old President, but the German Government objected, and Rumania just now fears crossing Germany...