Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Mary & Lord Baldwin. At one of the most dangerous moments of the Czechoslovak crisis last week, when Britain and France were mobilizing for war and Adolf Hitler was adamant in repeating that the German Army would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addressed the Empire and the U.S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier to use his good offices with the Führer...
...Ganzer Kerl!" Adolf Hitler, who makes it his crude habit to rub the noses of distinguished foreign guests as deeply as possible in Nazidom, characteristically staged the Munich conference at the very hub of the Nazi movement, the Führerhaus (Leader's House...
...going to quibble about a village!" was one of Adolf Hitler's cracks. Doodles by Benito Mussolini at the Conference consisted of scratching short parallel lines, making large capital letters at random. Premier Daladier said afterward that he had dissuaded the Führer from certain demands touching Bratislava. Added the Frenchman: "If there had been any question threatening the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, I would have resolutely refused to consider negotiating further." Herr Hitler said later that M. Daladier is "Ein ganzer Kerl," which Nazi aides translated as "a real...
British statesmen were concerned this week because Adolf Hitler had let four days go by without replying to Franklin Roosevelt's second appeal for peace (see above), especially since in Berlin a high Nazi had remarked: "Our Führer took cognizance of the American President's reply to his yesterday's telegram, but no answer is likely to be forthcoming, else there will be no end of the messaging back and forth...
...French were furious when in 1935 the British, under Stanley Baldwin, made a separate naval limitations pact with Hitler Germany-an agreement which incidentally violated the Treaty of Versailles. And they were furious last week when Neville Chamberlain surprised almost everyone at Munich by accepting an invitation from Adolf Hitler to stay on after the Four-Power Conference had ended (see above) for a 90-minute talk...