Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
Politely but without a heel-click, Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced...
...German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think up further fancy excuses for aggression, in Berlin it was simply stated that "the eternal yesterdayers who always limp behind events [are] therefore . . . constantly surprised by them...
That Hitler had the card was hinted last week when the Hungarian Foreign Minister was one of the small and distinguished party-including the Japanese and Italian Ambassadors-which shared Herr Hitler's triumphant arrival in Berlin (see col.3). Nicholas Horthy, Hungary's Regent, was scheduled to meet Fuhrer Hitler soon to discuss "common problems," and speculators wondered whether His Serene Highness might not find it expedient to deliver his country into the trust of Adolf Hitler, just as President Emil Hacha of Czechoslovakia did last week...
Monday. "German boys," lied Berlin papers on Monday, "are mishandled with brass knuckles . . . while Jews applaud. . . . German houses are fired on by Czech armored cars. . . . Murder and arson rule again in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. . . ." Radio announcers talked of "Communists in Czech gendarme uniforms." Next day the push began in earnest...