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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within her three...
...week-end war speech to the Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the hulls of Pilsudski, the 14,294-ton flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven...
Chapter 1: The Wireless Set. Late in October 1939, clever Gestapo agents, posing as discontented Germans, managed to make contact with certain naïve British intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three American steel tubes; and a secret code. The set was not so good; had to have some German parts put in. The Germans carried it back into Germany, and the Britons at once began sending in the closest secrets of their Government...
...Since she sacrificed so much to gain Finland, she must be planning to follow up with something very soon. It is very likely that that 'something' will be the seizure of Bessarabia, which is now a part of Rumania. Russia lost three territories as a result of the last war: Finland, some parts of Poland, and Bessarabia. She has already regained two of them, and it is my guess that she may have it in mind to get back the third...
There was soon some criticism of Banker Cummings. In his spare time he was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Another full time job he held down (at $15,000) was as trustee of the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. He was also a co-receiver for Chicago Railways Co. and director of half-a-dozen big U. S. corporations, among them the Maryland Casualty Co., then in debt to the RFC to the tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus...