Word: war
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the war 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...
...just wanted to know what was going on. After taking prisoners they retired. All that was going on, on the Allied side of the lines, was the replacement of a French unit by British troops, bringing the British into contact with the Germans for the first time in the war (TIME, Dec. 18). That these British troops threw back a German attack last week was scornfully denied in Berlin. "Curiously," snorted a communique, "the German troops know nothing of such an event...
...curtain was Adolf Hitler's pleasure, communicated by wireless. There was no apparent reason for it. Assuming that the Spee was in no condition to engage even the light British cruisers, Hitler had nothing to lose by allowing her to be interned-unless he expects to lose the war, he could expect to recover the interned ship when war is over. World War I had been lost when the Germans scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flow. If Hitler ordered the Spee scuttled merely that his enemies would never lay hands on her, World War II was already half lost...
Statistically, the war in the air had turned into a neutral editor's shambles...
...destroyer Duchess went to the bottom with 129 men. The Admiralty refused to divulge either the place of the collision or the name of the other ship, but it could not conceal the fact that this was Britain's fourth largest naval disaster of the war...