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...failure after Munich was less spectacular, but more costly. Not only was war hateful to him, but all military and naval matters were distasteful. When Hitler broke his word of honor as a gentleman and occupied the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Chamberlain determined that Britain must rearm. But he believed that rearmament would be used for negotiation, not for war. And so the rearmament of Britain was mostly on paper, and Hitler also knew that...
...date. The love of Empire which had caused Father Joe to break with Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich...
Austria was the first victim. But Austria, which had not recovered from World War I, did not bring Germany much because her own industries were fed by imports. So were Czecho-Slovakia's. From both of them Germany got an annual supply of nearly 4,000,000 tons of iron ore (a third of her own production). In the event that Germany should be bombed out of the Ruhr, Austria's iron and steel industry at Graz, CzechoSlovakia's well-developed heavy industry near Prague (including the mighty Skoda munitions works at Pilsen) will be important...
...spring of 1938 Hitler took Austria. In the fall of 1938 he conquered Czecho-Slovakia at Munich. In the fall of 1939 he took Poland. If Britain and France had not called for a showdown at that time he would not have attended to them until later. His next step would logically have been to carve himself an empire in that part of Europe which is mapped on the two following pages...
...Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain; Vincent Sheean, prematurely greying veteran of the Riff rebellion, Spain's Civil War, the Nazi occupation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, who covered the Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance; carrot-thatched, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, roving war correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, who came home last winter long enough to deliver 88 lectures telling people that the odds favored a German victory...