Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
Ways exist of playing successfully against Adolf Hitler according to his lack of rules,* but they are not the ways of His Majesty's Government. Sir John had expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn...
Lawyerish Sir John Simon perhaps cannot believe that anyone would tear up a deck of cards. His nature is to assume that the game must go on and, being a game, must go on according to the rules. To their Embassy in Berlin the imperturbable British sent instructions to ask the German Government whether Adolf Hitler's invitation to Sir John Simon still stood; whether, assuming that it stood, the German Government remained anxious to obtain by bargain what they had purported to seize; whether, in effect, the Nazis are mad dogs or gentlemanly players of a gentleman...
...Berlin, March 19--Promoter Walter Rothenburg has Max Schmeling signed to box Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and is seeking a site for the bout, but has not been able to come to terms with the champion, he said today...