Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
...aggression pacts with the Reich. Norway and Sweden promptly refused, saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders in the U. S. for war planes...
...refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with dispatches between St. George and Hamilton, the capital. With the island under decree law, women suffragists revived their old agitation...
...straight truth is not the only instrument of propaganda that the British use. Their statesmen happen to possess a grade of literary finesse surpassed by no ruling group in the world today, and one in particular has contrived to bring to the Foreign Office publications the quality of the bestseller...
...There were, in fact, for Herr Hitler only two solutions: The use of force, or the achievement of his aims by the display of force. 'If you wish to obtain your objective by force, you must be strong; if you wish to obtain them by negotiation, you must be stronger still.' That was a remark which he made to a foreign statesman who visited him this year, and it expresses in the concisest possible form the Hitler technique...