Word: bloodlessness
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...could have secured his objectives by this display of force he might have been content for the moment, with all the additional prestige which another bloodless success would have procured for him with his own people. But it would only have been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed...
...Europe the effect was to put the squeeze direct on Poland, Hungary and the Balkans (see p. 21). They became almost indefensible to the Allies even if Russia's peace pact with Germany was only a peace pact. It gave Adolf Hitler his greatest victory since the bloodless European war began, it gave him a triumph to celebrate at his Nazi Party Congress of Peace at Niirnberg Sept. 2, and it left Britain and France gasping...
...Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
...matter of yellow man killing yellow man. At the port of Tientsin, gateway to Peking and one of the first cities to fall to the Japanese, Japanese soldiers surrounded and blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West...
...neutrality. It was an event that went a long way toward restoring the balance of power that had lately swung heavily in favor of the dictators. If Chamberlain's words meant anything, they meant that from now on Führer Hitler will have few if any more bloodless conquests...