Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> On Hitler Visit No. 2 (later the same day): ". . . He was quite calm the second time and never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of...
> Third Hitler visit (August 25): "The only signs of excitement on Herr Hitler's part were when he referred to Polish persecutions. . . . [He] said there had been an other case of castration. Among the points mentioned by Herr Hitler were: That the only winner of another European war would...
> Fifth Hitler interview (August 29) : "The interview this evening was of a stormy character and Hitler was far less reasonable than yesterday. A press announcement this evening that five more Germans had been killed in Poland and news of the Polish mobilization had obviously excited him.
The British War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, made a quick trip to Paris. Two days later the French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall...
In Berlin, Chief Propagandist Goebbels denied that Germany was getting ready to violate the Low Countries' neutrality. Another explanation might be that from Germany's nearest points to England and the Channel she was planning an air war on British shipping, to back up her submarine attacks on...