Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French department stores reported Christmas sales about 40% below last year. They were doing a thriving trade, however, in everything wearable, drinkable or eatable that devoted French women thought their men at the front might like. L'Amour is important to morale, and the State made it possible last week for tens of thousands of women to visit their husbands at Christmas. Mothers with evacuated children in the countryside were offered by the French State Railways free trips during the holidays to visit their moppets...
Wealthy Britons seemed to be splurging last week on Christmas furs and jewels, "partly as investments," shopkeepers thought...
...Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that at least some nations would send supplies. France let it be known that she could send some old artillery. Britain thought she could spare a few more planes...
...said, "was the first to denounce the peril of Bolshevism," and the Count's speech reassured Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow on the 23rd to sign...
...began, Paris correspondents of U. S. newspapers have been predicting a big German offensive with agonizing regularity. This is not merely wishful thinking by writers weary of stretching a 50-word communique into a column, but is a reflection of the edginess of the average Frenchman, who thought a real war would end the war of nerves. Last week dispatches to the U. S. were again full of ominous signs: unusually large forces had been spotted across the Moselle from Luxembourg; a cold snap had frozen flooded areas in The Netherlands, making a mechanized offensive possible; Germans attacked three French...