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1911 Speech of the Unknown resurfaces in political oratory candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The tale of the unknown speaker from the Declaration of Independence resurfaced in a collection of American political oratory, this time with the robed figure fancifully identified as Patrick Henry rather than remaining anonymous. ●●

1911 Members of the commission traveled to Japan, Europe, and the United States to study alternative cons candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Members of the commission traveled to Japan, Europe, and the United States to study alternative constitutional models, and by 1911 they had drafted an extensively revised code that contained new provisions related to commercial law, procedure, and ju ●●

1912 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Driven by his faith in Florida’s future, Flagler merged his railroads in 1892 and conceived a master plan for a railroad that would snake down the length of Florida’s Atlantic coast to Key West, wi... ●●

1913 Pierpont was buried in the family mausoleum at Hartford’s Ce candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pierpont was buried in the family mausoleum at Hartford’s Cedar Hill Cemetery, according to his wishes: “opposite the place where my father’s remains are interred.”63 Perhaps no other event of the ye... ●●

1913 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When he stepped down from Standard Oil, he was probably worth about $200 million—$3.5 billion today—whereas, thanks to the internal-combustion engine, his fortune soared to $1 billion by 1913—surel... ●●

1913 Legislative action candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1913, the year that the Federal Reserve Act became law, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Currency and Banking, under the chairmanship of Ar ●●

1914 Jack Morgan Opposes War candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When war broke out in 1914, J. P. Morgan issued appeals to belligerents to stop the fighting, demonstrating his opposition to the conflict. ●●

1914 In August 1914, Jewish groups issued impassioned calls candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1914, Jewish groups issued impassioned calls to arms, urging the community to enlist and refute anti-Semitic libels about their questionable patriotism. ●●

1914 Guaranty Trust sent Minotto to South America candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story On October 25, 1914, Guaranty Trust sends Jacques Minotto to South America. Minotto later becomes involved in German espionage during World War I. ●●

1914 October 3, 1914, Roosevelt wrote to the British am... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On October 3, 1914, Roosevelt wrote to the British ambassador to Washington (conveniently forgetting his earlier judgm ●●

1914 his second State of the Union address on December ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In his second State of the Union address on December 8, 1914, and after the European war had been raging for four months, Wilson rejected an increase ●●

1914 February 1914—six months before the war—he wrote a... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In February 1914—six months before the war—he wrote a prophetic memorandum for the Tsar: The main burden of the war ●●

1915 In Denmark, the middle-class groups aligned with the peasantry (or, more properly, farmers, since th candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Denmark, the middle-class groups aligned with the peasantry (or, more properly, farmers, since the old peasantry had largely disappeared by this point) to demand an end to absolutism in 1848; in 1915, they aligned with the working class to demand ●●

1916 Thus, when, in May 1916, Wilson advanced for the f... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thus, when, in May 1916, Wilson advanced for the first time his scheme for a world organization, he was no doubt convinced that it had been his own id ●●

1916 War or conflict candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Navy Department began extensive purchasing of war supplies in the Fall of 1916 ●●

1917 By July 13, 1917, there were fifty-one private banks providing Britain with... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By July 13, 1917, there were fifty-one private banks providing Britain with another batch of loans totaling $234 million. Morgan led the pack with nearly $70 million. Other top... ●●

1917 Stockholm legation warns about suspicious persons with American passports candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Stockholm legation cables the State Department on June 13, 1917, about concerns regarding suspicious persons bearing American passports at the Russian frontier. ●●

1917 British cablegram orders Trotsky's detention pending instructions candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story An official cablegram of March 29, 1917, from London, presumably from the Admiralty, instructs that the Trotsky party should be taken off the Kristianiafjord and retained pending further instructions. ●●

1917 Deputy postmaster general Coulter intervenes to secure Trotsky's release candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Deputy Postmaster General R.M. Coulter of Canada receives telegrams from New York residents and intervenes on behalf of Trotsky's release by writing to Major General Willoughby Gwatkin at the Department of Militia and Defense. ●●

1917 refrained from offering American participation in ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story refrained from offering American participation in this “universal association.” Finally in January 1917, he took the leap and advocated American membe ●●

1917 began the first effective and sustained campaign of strategic civilian bombardment. candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story began the first effective and sustained campaign of strategic civilian bombardment. ●●

1918 Before Christmas 1918, he and his regiment stormed candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Before Christmas 1918, he and his regiment stormed the Berlin Castle, occupied by a mutinous naval division; eight gunners died in an abortive effort. ●●

1918 Max Hoffmann, Chief of Staff of the Eastern front,... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Max Hoffmann, Chief of Staff of the Eastern front, understood the balance of forces and put forward brutal terms in January 1918. ●●

1918 The Sunday Express, launched in 1918, spent over two million pounds be... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Sunday Express, launched in 1918, spent over two million pounds before it broke even with a circulation of over 250,000.7 Similar processes were at work in the United States, where the start-up c ●●

1919 By June 1919, Vanderlip had been kicked out of National City.48 Charles Mit... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By June 1919, Vanderlip had been kicked out of National City.48 Charles Mitchell, the brash outsider, rose within the bank embracing the notion of short-term profit ahead of... ●●

1919 In 1919 Adolf Hitler began to proselytize among candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1919 Adolf Hitler began to proselytize among angry veterans in Munich beer halls. ●●

1919 Nyberg becomes first Soviet operative representative in United States candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In 1919, Nyberg, a Finnish immigrant who arrived in January 1912, becomes the first operative Soviet representative in the United States, serving as an activist propagandist. ●●

1919 Frank Polk cables American legation regarding Russian commercial matters candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story On January 11, 1919, Frank Polk of the State Department cables the American legation in Stockholm regarding negotiations for Russian commerce. ●●

1919 Secretary Lansing receives report on Rockefeller backing of Kolchak candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1919, the secretary of state receives reports indicating Rockefeller interests have provided funds to Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia against the Bolsheviks. ●●

1919 Therefore, when the peacemakers revealed their han... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Therefore, when the peacemakers revealed their handiwork in June 1919, the Germans were shocked and embarked on two decades of systematically undermin ●●

1920 Anti-fortunetelling laws enacted in New York and other states candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Anti-fortunetelling laws were enacted in several states including New York, dating back to the 1920s. These laws were intended to protect people from con artists posing as psychics, though they risk impinging on people's religious freedoms if overly applied. ●●

1921 Giving a great fillip to the Warburg library candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Giving a great fillip to the Warburg library was the founding of Hamburg University, a cause so dear to Aby’s heart. On August 19, 1921, he was named an honorary professor in absentia. ●●

1922 When one of Chicherin’s aides telephoned the Germa... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When one of Chicherin’s aides telephoned the German delegation at the conspiratorial hour of one-fifteen in the morning on April 16, 1922, proposing a ●●

1922 Most of the United States candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Most of the United States armed forces left Cuba by August 1919, but two companies remained at Camaguey until February 1922 ●●

1923 If X rays—light—were only a motion of waves, then their wavelengths would not ha candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If X rays—light—were only a motion of waves, then their wavelengths would not have changed; Compton had in fact demonstrated in 1923 what Einstein had postulated in 1905 in his theory of the photoelectric effect: that light was wave but also simultaneously particle, photon. ●●

1923 Indeed, Bosch’s central objective in promoting the merger seems to have been to attain sufficient sc candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Indeed, Bosch’s central objective in promoting the merger seems to have been to attain sufficient scale to be able to finance the progress of his immensely expensive synthetic technologies.” By September 1923 Bosch’s research group had synthesized me ●●

1923 On Germany’s eastern borders in the early 1920s, the turmoil of war, revolution and civil war in Rus candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On Germany’s eastern borders in the early 1920s, the turmoil of war, revolution and civil war in Russia, Poland and the Ukraine had precipitated an agricultural disaster, which by 1923 had claimed the lives of perhaps as many as 5 million people.” In ●●

1925 Between 1925 and the onslaught of the great depression at the end of 1929, Sears... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between 1925 and the onslaught of the great depression at the end of 1929, Sears and Montgomery Ward both created a large nationwide chain ●●

1926 The Commission was disbanded in 1926, leaving the ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Commission was disbanded in 1926, leaving the verification of German compliance to Allied intelligence services. ●●

1927 Moscow State University Awarded Land Allocation to Soviet Collective candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1927, the Soviet Union had purchased twenty-seven thousand American tractors, demonstrating its commitment to mechanized collective agriculture as an industrial model for rural production. ●●

1928 on and as a eugenical question-but it is candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on and as a eugenical question-but it is in politics now, and that means that the institution has to preserve a neutrality.”11 Yet Laughlin did nothing to restrict his vocal activities. By the end of 1928, Merriam convened an internal committee to review the value of the Eugenics Record Office. In e ●●

1928 In 1928, rather than the Germans it was the Americans and most notably the chairman of the US Federa candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1928, rather than the Germans it was the Americans and most notably the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Benjamin Strong, who began to push for the renegotiation of Germany’s reparation obliga- tions before the full annuities owing under the Da ●●

1929 Indeed, when the New York Fed’s board of directors voted to increase rates... candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Indeed, when the New York Fed’s board of directors voted to increase rates between February and May 1929, Mitchell objected.13 McGarrah supported Mitchell, and on May 31 he upped... ●●

1929 By November 1929, the New York Fed had increased its discounts for member b... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By November 1929, the New York Fed had increased its discounts for member banks by $150 million and purchased $150 million of government securities in the open market to further... ●●

1929 By mid-November 1929, Lamont and other financial leaders had declared the c... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By mid-November 1929, Lamont and other financial leaders had declared the crisis fully behind them. After they met on November 15 at the Morgan Bank for a follow-up conference,... ●●

1929 When the Dow stood at 359 on September 23, 1929 (the market had topped out... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the Dow stood at 359 on September 23, 1929 (the market had topped out twenty days earlier at 381), he placed what would be a hugely profitable bet that Chase’s stock would... ●●

1929 In late 1929 Communist party ideologists (including Jewish... (1929) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In late 1929 Communist party ideologists (including Jewish ones) denounced the foreign bourgeois organizations behind the Agro-Joint, as the great wave of forced collectivization got under way. ●●

1929 For example, in 1929, in order to diversify risks and investments, the families candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For example, in 1929, in order to diversify risks and investments, the families controlling Filenes of Boston, Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, New York, ●●

1929 By the end of 1929, Sears had opened 324 retail stores and Montgomery Ward nearl... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the end of 1929, Sears had opened 324 retail stores and Montgomery Ward nearly 500 ●●

1931 Morgan Bank Overlooks Japanese Aggression in Manchuria candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Japan became a major Morgan client, Tom Lamont was reluctant to confront Japanese expansionism. Japan's invasion of Manchuria went largely unchallenged by the bank, which valued its profitable Japanese business relationships. ●●

1931 Only at Bad Harzburg in October 1931 did major... (1931) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only at Bad Harzburg in October 1931 did major industrialists of the Ruhr and Rhineland flirt openly with the Nazis; Dr. ●●

1931 the powers of numerical addressing and self-reference candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gödel had demonstrated, in 1931, the powers of numerical addressing and self-reference ●●

1931 Remarkably, in early 1931 Briand renewed his approach to Germany, suggesting that to assist Bruening candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Remarkably, in early 1931 Briand renewed his approach to Germany, suggesting that to assist Bruening in complying with the Young Plan, the Paris capital market might be opened to long-term German borrowing. ●●

1932 In early 1932, Hitler dispatched Wilhelm Keppler, the owner... (1932) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1932, Hitler dispatched Wilhelm Keppler, the owner of a small chemical factory, to court Hamburg business chieftains. ●●

1932 Meanwhile, the first hints of an economic recovery had made their appearance in America in June 1932 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Meanwhile, the first hints of an economic recovery had made their appearance in America in June 1932.'” After the lifting of reparations at Lausanne, demand for German bonds began to strengthen.’ This was crucial, because it provided an opportunity f ●●

1932 As the Nazi party prepared for power in the euphoric summer of 1932, Darré elaborated in very specif candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the Nazi party prepared for power in the euphoric summer of 1932, Darré elaborated in very specific terms on the future mission of the SS in a report delivered to a secret leadership conference on the future eastern policy of the Third Reich.*” As ●●

1932 For fifty years the same candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For fifty years the same people had all the power, all the money, all the jobs, all the education, all the opportunities.” In the decades following the famed peasant rebellion in 1932, which was crushed by an unholy massacre, a reform government had ●●

1933 Vying for the position of the most powerful banker in the country, he vehem... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Vying for the position of the most powerful banker in the country, he vehemently backed the proposed Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which would force a separation of commercial and... ●●

1933 Things got worse as 1933 opened, with 273 banks closing in January alone, b... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Things got worse as 1933 opened, with 273 banks closing in January alone, bringing about another rush of citizens extracting whatever deposits they had left, fearing the worst.... ●●

1933 Policing Wall Street The very structure of the US banking system had been d... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Policing Wall Street The very structure of the US banking system had been dramatically altered under the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. But there remained a need for a federal body... ●●

1933 In 1933, Eddie moved to New York and worked as a volunteer... (1933) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1933, Eddie moved to New York and worked as a volunteer at MOMA, helping to found its film department and serving as its treasurer. ●●

1933 When the boycott officially ended on April 4, German Jews... (1933) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the boycott officially ended on April 4, German Jews felt great relief and Max thought they had survived the worst of Hitler.36 Because of haunting newsreel images of goose-stepping soldiers and Nuremberg rallies, we forget that some semblance of normality remained for well-to-do Jews in large cities in 1933. ●●

1933 Then Jimmy received a message from Raymond Moley that... (1933) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then Jimmy received a message from Raymond Moley that changed his life: “Tell him [Warburg] it’s dead and bind up the wounds.”37 This foreshadowed Roosevelt’s message of July 3, 1933, in which he railed against the currency stabilization proposal as based on the “old fetishes of so-called international bankers.…”38 Belatedly, FDR had realized that currency stabilization might clash with his goal of stimulating higher farm prices. ●●

1933 By August 1933, lawyers in London had drawn up papers for a... (1933) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By August 1933, lawyers in London had drawn up papers for a new firm, and Max went to London to brief Lionel de Rothschild and the Barings. ●●

1933 Locker-Lampson parliamentary bill candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Locker-Lampson parliamentary bill ●●

1933 Einstein visits son Eduard candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein visits son Eduard ●●

1933 In 1933, given that there were 6 million un- employed and most of German industry was running at les candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1933, given that there were 6 million un- employed and most of German industry was running at less than 50 per cent capacity, this was not a hard balance to strike. ●●

1933 This was clearly intended as part of a more general reorganiz- ation in the coal industry, which als candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This was clearly intended as part of a more general reorganiz- ation in the coal industry, which also included the notorious manoeuvrethrough which Paul Silverberg, Germany’s leading Jewish industrialist, was stripped of his control of the lignite pr ●●

1934 As Fermi’s team had discovered in Rome in 1934, hydrogen was more efficient than candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Fermi’s team had discovered in Rome in 1934, hydrogen was more efficient than any other element at slowing down neutrons, and slow neutrons avoided the parasitic capture resonance of U238. ●●

1934 in the wake of Fermi’s June Nature article “Possible production of elements of atomic number higher candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in the wake of Fermi’s June Nature article “Possible production of elements of atomic number higher than 92,” a curious paper appeared in a publication seldom read by physicists, the Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie—the Journal of Applied Chemistry. ●●

1934 he had arranged for Brasch and his colleagues in Berlin to break up beryllium with hard X rays; the candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story he had arranged for Brasch and his colleagues in Berlin to break up beryllium with hard X rays; the experiment had been a success and Brasch and four other contributors had signed the report to Nature along with Chalmers and Szilard. ●●

1934 t annual state Conference of Charities and Corrections candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story t annual state Conference of Charities and Corrections that the kindest “act of charity” society could show to an economically disadvantaged or “degenerate” person was to sterilize the individual. In 1934, Connecticut Congregationalist Pastor George Reid Andrews walked away from his pulpit to assume ●●

1935 In 1935, he published Hell Bent for Election, a tract that... (1935) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1935, he published Hell Bent for Election, a tract that introduced the phrase “soak the rich” into the lexicon. ●●

1935 January 1935, then Foreign Minister Pierre Laval c... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In January 1935, then Foreign Minister Pierre Laval concluded what came close to being a military alliance. ●●

1935 continue its economic and political support for Laughlin candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story continue its economic and political support for Laughlin and his enterprises. Shortly after Merriam reviewed the advisory committee’s conclusions, the Reich passed the Nuremberg Laws in September of 1935. Those of Jewish ancestry were stripped of their civil rights. Laughlin, Eugenical News and the ●●

1935 In the spring of 1935 France lengthened its period of conscription to two years and the British gove candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the spring of 1935 France lengthened its period of conscription to two years and the British government announced a major reconsideration of its defence policy.'* France further secured 207 THE WAGES OF DESTRUCTION itself in May 1935 with a mutua ●●

1936 He remained a strong supporter of Roosevelt, though, lending his name to th... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He remained a strong supporter of Roosevelt, though, lending his name to the book I’m for Roosevelt!, published during the election year of 1936. Roosevelt enthusiastically... ●●

1936 Eric and his family moved into Noah’s Ark (1936) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story M. Warburg in 1936—became a postwar mayor, as did Max Brauer, who had bravely jumped from a window of Altona City Hall in 1933 and fled to America. Er... ●●

1936 Turing gave Newman a draft of his paper in April of 1936 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After a full year of work, Turing gave Newman a draft of his paper in April of 1936 ●●

1936 Raw materials and labour, not money, would dictate the pace of Germany’s military expansion.” A day candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Raw materials and labour, not money, would dictate the pace of Germany’s military expansion.” A day later, General Fritsch as commander-in-chief of the army formally approved Fromm’s monumental expansion plan as the basis for all further action.”* On ●●

1936 To meet the target, approved in December 1936, of creating a wartime army of 3.6 million men by 1940 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To meet the target, approved in December 1936, of creating a wartime army of 3.6 million men by 1940, the army had requested 270,500 tons of steel per month. ●●

1936 Only in 1936 after the creation of the Committee for Industrial Organization, af... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only in 1936 after the creation of the Committee for Industrial Organization, after its split from the A F of L, and after the resulting “civil war” in the ranks of labor, did the mass production industries begin to be extensively unionized ●●

1936 When Roosevelt decided in 1936 that, despite high unemployment, the depression w... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Roosevelt decided in 1936 that, despite high unemployment, the depression was over, he reduced government expenditures ●●

1937 Revulsion against the bombing of cities had grown in the United States since at candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Revulsion against the bombing of cities had grown in the United States since at least the Japanese bombing of Shanghai in 1937.1198 When Spanish Fascists bombed Barcelona in March 1938, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had condemned the atrocity publicly: “No theory of war can justify such conduct,” he told reporters. ●●

1937 The American reaction to militant Japanese expansion into Manchuria and China—as candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American reaction to militant Japanese expansion into Manchuria and China—as many as 200,000 men, women and children were brutally slaughtered by the Japanese Army in Shanghai in 1937—had been to embargo war materials and freeze Japanese assets in the United States. ●●

1938 Plus, Whitney wasn’t exactly the cleanest of operators, as 1938 indictments... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Plus, Whitney wasn’t exactly the cleanest of operators, as 1938 indictments and time in Sing Sing would reveal. The bill was proposed to deal with the kind of securities fraud... ●●

1938 Halifax reminds France that Locarno guarantee applies only to French border candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On March 22, 1938, shortly after the annexation of Austria, Halifax reminded the French leaders that the Locarno guarantee applied only to the French border and might lapse if France implemented its treaty commitments in Central Europe. ●●

1938 Roosevelt suggests holding negotiations on neutral ground regarding Czechoslovakia candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1938, President Roosevelt suggested holding a negotiation on some neutral ground regarding the Czechoslovak crisis, though he made clear the United States would assume no obligations in the conduct of the negotiations. ●●

1938 This at least was the conclusion that emerged from a day-long conference on 2 June 1938 attended by candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This at least was the conclusion that emerged from a day-long conference on 2 June 1938 attended by a roster of Germany’s most prestigious economics professors and hosted by the Reichsbank together with the Wehrmacht’s military-economic office.** The ●●

1938 It was not until after the conference with Goering on 12 November 1938 that Reichsbank president Hja candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was not until after the conference with Goering on 12 November 1938 that Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht was authorized to attempt one last act of cynical financial wizardry.’ In collaboration with the Austrian Economic Minister Hans Fisch- b ●●

1939 On January 2 (1939) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 2, 1939, Hitler called Schacht to the Obersalzberg for a report on the London talks. By this point, the Führer had lost patience with the n... ●●

1939 on September 1, 1939, and precipitated the Second World War candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on September 1, 1939, and precipitated the Second World War. ●●

1939 As a result of the German bombing of Warsaw in the autumn of 1939, an act German candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As a result of the German bombing of Warsaw in the autumn of 1939, an act Germany represented as tactical because the Polish city was heavily fortified, the British Air Ministry had repudiated its pledge to refrain from strategic bombing.1346 But neither belligerent was eager to exchange bombing raids, and although nightly blackouts added inconvenience and apprehension to the wartime burden of the people of both nations, the implicit truce held until mid-May 1940. ●●

1939 Whereas Germany attempted to suck Romania into its orbit, Turkey opted for the Western powers, secur candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Whereas Germany attempted to suck Romania into its orbit, Turkey opted for the Western powers, securing the right flank of the British Empire in the Middle East.** Turkey’s decision was premised on the common understanding in the spring of 1939 that ●●

1939 Following the German occupation of Prague on 15 March, it was, as we have seen, generally assumed th candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following the German occupation of Prague on 15 March, it was, as we have seen, generally assumed that a Triple a 318 1939: NOTHING TO GAIN BY WAITING Alliance would soon bind France, Britain and the Soviet Union into a defensive system against Germ ●●

1940 Their strategy was congruent in candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Their strategy was congruent in many important respects with that of Nazi “philosopher” Alfred Rosenberg, and Intermarium leaders established a close working relationship with the Rosenberg ministry at least as early as 1940. ●●

1940 Hitler-Stalin secret negotiations on excluding America from Eurasia candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed in secret negotiations in November 1940 that America should be excluded from Eurasia. Both aspirants to global power recognized that American power injected into Eurasia would preclude their ambitions regarding global domination. ●●

1940 I did not intend to go candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I did not intend to go.”1320 The other event of that crucial day, May 10, 1940, reversed his intention: the phony war abruptly ended. ●●

1940 The last reference has to candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The last reference has to do with the bacteriological warfare experiments the Japanese had carried out against China between 1940 and 1942 ●●

1941 The slaughter that followed the candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The slaughter that followed the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 is without equal in world history. ●●