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...President and a secretary-typist knew what the letter contained. Before the week was out Nazi propagandists would say that Messenger Davies had brought a proposal for the history-making dissolution of the Comintern (see col. 2). Other speculation: the letter had to do with: 1) a meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek (before the U.S. Congress Winston Churchill "earnestly" hoped for such a meeting); or 2) Soviet Union war and postwar aims, still an unknown factor; or 3) Russo-Vatican relations; or 4) Russo-Polish differences; or 5) all four...
Sixty-four-year-old Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius, whose signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in Berlin last week provoked the Copenhagen riots, is Adolf Hitler's most efficient tool in Denmark. The son of a Court Chamberlain, he made his youthful diplomatic debut in Berlin, first became Foreign Minister in 1909 when he was only 32. Since then he has been Ambassador to Italy, Austria and Sweden, a leader of the pro-German Radical Party. Last July he organized the Danish Free Corps to fight Russia...
Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler...
...Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven little Axis satellites (Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Rumania and Nanking) added their signatures to the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936, which was just a preliminary to the great European pact that Hitler was readying for Marshal Pétain's signature...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...