Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Adolf Hitler tells his people what he wants, and takes it. In Russia, Joseph Stalin does the same. In France, Edouard Daladier had promulgated sweeping socialistic measures by decree. In Great Britain, Sir John Simon opened the budget in September instead of April...
What he said in his cold, precise voice was as simple as it was devastating. Instead of the $3,768,000,000 of revenue estimated last April, the Government would need no less than $8,000,000,000 for the first year of its war against Adolf Hitler...
...Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler...
After You, Adolf. The economy, the technology, the psychology of A. Hitler & Co.'s war position are all geared for an early, quick, dramatic offensive. Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was reported last week to be urging Hitler to strike at once with a giant pincer attack through Belgium and Switzerland. Air Minister Goring was reported against this, at least until the U. S. should make up its mind about embargoing munitions to the Allies. If the embargo is lifted and U. S. opinion of Germany discounted, then Göring would strike ruthlessly through the air. Meantime, the Berlin correspondent...
...artillery pounding, presaged last week by increased aerial reconnaissance and exploratory fire, would be quite in keeping with the Liddell Hart "super-guerrilla" plan (see col. 2). Unless his British friends should insist on action more precipitate, Generalissimo Gamelin appeared content to reply to the Stefani report: "After you, Adolf...