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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stronger than the recent notes to Germany on the repudiated Austrian debt and the refugee problem, stronger than the "temporary recall" of Ambassador Hugh Wilson. It was so strong that the Nazi Government did not even let its press tell the German people about it. It was as close to a severance of diplomatic relations as two "friendly" nations...
Understanding Senator Pittman's words were far too crude for diplomacy. Even from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (who is not expected to be a diplomat) they came perilously close to being a deliberate insult. And there was even a suspicion that they might have been inspired by the White House. In effect, Mr. Ickes having boxed Adolf Hitler's ear, and Mr. Welles having slapped his nose, Mr. Pittman took a roundhouse swing...
...Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth? or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world...
Most other world figures of 1938 faded in importance as the year drew to a close. Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with honor'' seemed more than ever to have achieved neither. An increasing number of Britons ridiculed his appease-the-dictators policy, believed that nothing save abject surrender could satisfy the dictators' ambitions...
When Germany took over Austria she took upon herself the care and feeding of 7,000,000 poor relations. When 3,500,000 Sudetens were absorbed, there were that many more mouths to feed. As 1938 drew to a close many were the signs that the Nazi economy of exchange control, barter trade, lowered standard of living, "self-sufficiency," was cracking. Nor were signs lacking that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give...