Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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About 3 a. m. elephantine Speaker Edouard Herriot let spectators stream back into the Chamber galleries. He revealed that during the secret session prominent Rightist Deputy Louis Marin had introduced a motion of no-confidence in the Daladier Government. The "voting urns"-dark brown wooden boxes-had been passed. The count was announced officially as 239-to-1 in support of the Cabinet-with more than 300 abstentions...
...Allies, according to Mr. Chamberlain, took immediate steps in secret to raise an expeditionary force of 100,000, "heavily armed and equipped," this being the largest force which British and French experts figured could be transported across Norway and Sweden in time to reach Finland in early May. As soon as Germany got wind of this, the Nazis began to threaten the Norwegians, Swedes and Finns, said Mr. Chamberlain. The Allies asked the Finns to decide by March 5 if they wanted the expeditionary force. The Finns asked if 50,000 troops could be sent to arrive by April...
...through a marriage ceremony with even his acknowledged first or second wife is as doubtful as whether A. Hitler has been to the altar with Miss Evi Braun (TIME, Dec. 18). One Stalin son and relatives of Wife No. 1, said Mr. Williams, had been jugged by the Soviet Secret Police several years ago, later freed...
...Brutal Buccaneer." That this war will be ruthless is to be expected of the man who organized the Nazi Secret Police and system of concentration camps, who coolly announced the shooting of Frau von Schleicher for resisting her ex-Chancellor husband's arrest, who, most people believe, plotted the firing of the Reichstag in 1933 and the subsequent purge of Communists. Göring himself has boasted of the sort of war it will be. Long before World War II began he said: "At one order, Hell would be turned loose on the enemy! With one quick blow destruction...
Hitler owes his safety to Heinrich Himmler's Secret Police. But the Munich beer-hall bombing indicates that Himmler could use his police for an opposite purpose just as easily-if Göring, who organized the Gestapo, did not have his own private spies to spy on Himmler's spies...