Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelmina's grandfather, William II, fought a brief war to try to regain Belgium. The unification of the 29 German States into one big neighboring empire headed by Prussia made the practical Dutch finally realize that a nation of only a few million could no longer play big-time grabby politics in a world of giant neighbors. It was under Wilhelmina that The Netherlands became a "satisfied nation," settled down and hung up its sword like Switzerland and the Scandinavian States...
...Ministers, and woe be to him who does not know his subject well. The Queen has been so long at her job that she can ask the most difficult questions; when a Minister cannot answer them he is told to study up and sent home. In what spare time Her Majesty permits herself she paints landscapes and cows...
...with a broadcast suited to Nazi tastes. Apparently he at first refused to speak, and this silence was explained away in Berlin by the Fiihrer's own newspaper, which said that Dr. Hacha was seriously ill and was not expected to leave his bed for a long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have...
...Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With Nazi Protector Baron Xeurath Leader Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival...
...have constant relations not only with my own organization in Germany but also with numerous soldiers and members of the Nazi Party," Otto Strasser told the Paris-Soir. "I can tell you that Germany is ready for an anti-Hitler revolution but it will take time. Higher officers of the Army are too subservient to Hitler to take part. But the Nazis have many enemies among the colonels, majors and subordinate officers. For a revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second...