Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heil, Chamberlain...
...Heil, Chamberlain! Most popular man in Nazidom...
Fortnight ago the thought of war in Europe, between whatever powers, for whatever cause, was abhorrent to most U. S. citizens. But after Prime Minister Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia...
...Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...