Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past years, the Rome Berlin axis will make what Marx calls "orientation moves," designed to test the strength of the British and French position. "Such moves will probably center in Mediterrancan issues, but Italy knows that France will never surrender Tunisia, and she will not force the issue...
Germany is less prepared for a game of bluff than she was before Munich, Marx stated. "The annoxation of Austria and the Sudeten area has presented the Third Reich with organizational problems of the first magnitude not solved thus far. Germany's Eastern neighbors, though nominally attached to the Berlin-Rome axis, are certainly no reliable partners in any military test. German penotrotion of Southeast Europe which she began with the emasculation of Czechoslovakia has not progressed beyond the first stage...
...diplomacy of military threat has had its opportunity, and Rome and Berlin, in spite of their brave words to the contrary, recognize this fact," he concluded...
...concise but comprehensive survey the author shows the all-pervasive drive of the German Auschiuss on the myriad peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula. The Rome-Berlin axis, by its recent conquests, forms a solid bulwark across the center of the continent. France and Britain are isolated. But the Fascist powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian...
However, his analysis tends to overemphasize the importance of strategic and economic factors. While Germany may be geographically located in such a position as to enable her to dominate the markets of her weaker neighbors, this does not mean that these countries will docilely submit to orders from Berlin. The dynamic force of nationalism must not be overlooked. Peoples like the Poles and Slavs can be counted upon to fight to the last man for their independent status. Even if once conquered, such subjects would be extremely dubious allies in event of another world conflagration...