Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...
That night in Berlin the Führer sat down in his great Chancellery and for three hours studied, word by word, the Prime Minister's speech. After that he called a conference of his most trusted henchmen and his highest ranking Generals. The Berlin blackout was ordered deepened, with arrests threatened for the smallest infraction. Berlin also halfway expected the bombers. But there was still some talking to be done. Emerging from Herr Hitler's study long after midnight was a polished, suave, smooth-faced man who for years has been one of the Führer...
Saturday, Sunday, Monday passed after Dr. Dietrich's warning and still Herr Hitler did not say the word that would send bombers roaring over London and Paris. There was talk of summoning to Berlin Italian and Russian emissaries for a conference of war. It was doubtful, however, whether the Italians cared to talk things over with the Russians...
...many Germans noticed a two-line announcement in their papers one day last week that the Berlin radio station, which usually starts broadcasting at 6 a. m., would not be on the air until 12:30 that day. No reason was given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead...
...many Berliners heard the relatively feeble Freedom Station, but in a delirium of joy they promptly spread the news by word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...