Word: southampton
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...Night Over Water takes place in a closed space from which no one can escape. The year is 1939, and war has just been declared between Britain and Germany. Pan American, which has recently introduced passenger service between the United States and Europe, sends a Flying Clipper off from Southampton, England. On board the luxurious plane, "high as a house and as long as a tennis court," are two dozen passengers and crew, each fearful that this will be the last flight out of Europe for many years...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer to its neighbors...