Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neville Chamberlain, taking his after-breakfast stroll as usual, nor serious M. Daladier, had the talent, training, or freakish love of shock to plan a move of the sort that Hitler had made. As profound gloom settled over the capitals of Europe-in Moscow, belatedly, as well as in Berlin-some great stroke of unprecedented originality, some inspired action unlike any that diplomatic history had known, seemed called for to answer Hitler's. But the imaginations of peace were not productive. Memories of Munich, when Mr. Chamberlain had acted outside the tradition of his class and country, stifled them...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...when & how Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler got together, the Russian picture of Russia's condition suggested that more than high politics egged Stalin on. Not theories, which could be changed, or political opponents, who could be liquidated, but shortages of shoes and rolling stock made approaches to Berlin, or Berlin's approaches to Moscow more palatable. Pieced together, reports looked like this...
...Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop took off for Moscow, and on Wednesday, when he signed the Pact, all Germany was jubilant. The press gloated, called the Axis "blockade proof," chided the English & French for "groveling before the Kremlin." The radio gloated some more. By nightfall Berlin's streets were as gay as any holiday. Cafes along Kurfurstendamm overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band...
...Friday, when Chancellor Hitler returned grim-faced to Berlin from Berchtesgaden and called off his Tannenberg speech-scheduled for Sunday-things seemed to take a turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...