Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Threat-of-the-week by Germany was publication of a list of British and French passenger ships which, since they are armed, will henceforth be "treated as enemy warships." Included were Aquitania, Britannia, Cameronia, De Grasse, Empress of Russia, Georgic, Mauretania, Queen Mary. De Grasse reached Manhattan safely this week. Cameronia arrived, too, wearing a new suit of orange-buff paint as camouflage. Theory: any attacking submarine must come to the surface to identify her fully, could then be gunned...
...France counter-threatened that any German ship acquired by a neutral since hostilities began might be treated as an enemy. This applied pointedly to the $20,000,000 Bremen, reported last week to have been taken over by Soviet Russia in exchange for supplies for Germany...
...today are thousands of young Europeans who would likely have been corpses by now if War II had taken the course of unprecedentedly murderous War I. Meantime, one big plan for Peace II has been shaping up in Anglo-French minds on an unprecedentedly thoughtful and humane pattern. Last week there were signs that the Nazi Government had begun to realize and fear the extent to which millions of Europeans are turning to the Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save...
Chicago Daily News's Helen Kirkpatrick cabled last week from London: "The decisions reached by the Allied Supreme War Council in yesterday's London meeting may mark the beginning of that federalism which many here and in France believe to be the solution of Europe's problems...
...Last week the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post presented what it described as the official German Army plans to invade The Netherlands on Nov.11, plus an "official" explanation of why that invasion did not come off as planned...