Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright spots on The Netherlands' horizon were that: 1) although the Germans considered invading the country, they eventually decided against it, partly because the Dutch had effectively remodeled their land defenses, partly because Germany, already at the Belgian Channel ports, had money and used it to buy supplies in neutral Holland; 2) The Dutch East Indies, selling to the Allies, cleaned...
...Allied flank but acquisition of bases for planes and submarines much closer to Great Britain than his present bases, for intensified warfare upon British shipping and the supply line of the British Expeditionary Force in France. With some 200 miles cut from their round trips to English Channel naval bases and industrial centres, Nazi bombers could be given fighter escorts, and fuel would be conserved. Should Britain go to The Netherlands' aid, her aid to France would be weakened by just so much...
Germany's first move, no doubt, would be a mass air attack aimed at all the Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old, though the pilots are heady and capable. Anti-aircraft defense is weak. Ground troops total less than 100,000 trained men, with 280,000 green reserves. So long as she did not tackle Belgium's Albert Canal and "Little Maginot" lines, and unless Belgium moved fast indeed to meet...
...They were being strengthened, but the last "blockship," which was to have been sunk athwart a channel to complete the Flow's blockade, did not arrive until the day after Royal Oak was torpedoed...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...