Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save the Nazis would be welcome. This amounts to inviting a revolution by the German people or a coup d'etat at Berlin, and suddenly at Ankara the Nazi hierarchy tried to outbid the Anglo-French formula of peacefully proffered federation by proffering one of its own, with a sword...
...contrast to this political diagram for a European superState, the appeal of the Anglo-French formula (now being bruited by diplomatists and pundits in all European capitals-even in Berlin through secret emissaries) is that it envisions a mainly economic European union...
...alleged German plan was to attack The Netherlands first, Belgium later-The Netherlands first because Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference to settle the last details of the attack to be launched the following day. They immediately concluded that the plan on which they had decided would...
...took 48 hours for the Germans to get puppet Protectorate President Dr. Emil Hacha on the air with a broadcast suited to Nazi tastes. Apparently he at first refused to speak, and this silence was explained away in Berlin by the Fiihrer's own newspaper, which said that Dr. Hacha was seriously ill and was not expected to leave his bed for a long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition...