Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German] good will." According to the noble Lord, Britain "in the years after Versailles [failed] to conciliate Germany," and Adolf Hitler has "aimed partly to make his country free and prosperous, but chiefly and mainly absolutely to free it from any danger in the future, and so every threat we made made him think aggression was necessary...
Central Front. Russia's most potent threat to Finland came, not from the isthmus, but from four columns which penetrated the 485-mile frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Circle, striking westward at Finnish railheads and roadheads, trying to reach the Gulf of Bothnia. Last fortnight one of these columns was reported to have captured Kemijärvi and to be bearing down on Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's Arctic Highway. Last week the Finns rushed troops north from the isthmus and in a surprise attack recaptured Salla, cutting this Russian column off from its base...
...roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
Trade centre turnover did virtually the reverse; prewar, in mid August it climbed to a peak slightly higher than in January. Threat of war sent it skidding. Then during the "war boom" in production, it fluctuated vigorously without making headway and did not equal its prewar peak till mid November-an indication that during this period the volume of transactions in these centres just about kept pace with proportional increase in inventories...
...French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat. It said...