Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever peace might mean to war-weary Spain, to the outside world the approaching end of the Spanish War was merely the signal for the beginning of a diplomatic tug of war between the European democracies and dictatorships. Germany and Italy believe they will exert more influence because they helped Rebel Spain win the war with men and munitions. France and Britain hope to get the new Spain into their camp by lending her money...
...First European statesman to appreciate the menace of Nazi Germany to the peace of Europe and to understand the Messianic mind of Adolf Hitler was the late Marshal Josef Pilsudski, for nine years revered dictator of Poland. When Herr Hitler first came to power Marshal Pilsudski proposed to France a joint "preventive" war against Germany. The French laughed at the suggestion. On his own hook the Marshal then got in contact with Führer Hitler, delivered an ultimatum which, in effect, said: "Do you want war or peace? If war, our Army marches tomorrow morning. If peace, sign here...
...survival must inevitably depend upon how well her foreign rather than her domestic affairs are conducted, it was Colonel Beck who became the "guardian of Pilsudski's testament"-an unwritten but nevertheless precise outline of Polish foreign policy-and hence the key figure in Polish if not Eastern European politics...
President Roosevelt's most trusted adviser on European affairs is 48-year-old William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Chief spokesman abroad for the President's policy of encouraging the European democracies to resist the dictators' aggressions, Ambassador Bullitt telephones Mr. Roosevelt almost daily from Paris, writes him long, chatty, informal reports on the European situation...
...America. As a youth he studied in Munich. He was in Russia when the World War started. As a correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger he covered the early part of the War from Austria-Hungary and Germany. When the U. S. declared war, his knowledge of languages and European affairs landed him in the U. S. State Department, where he had an office only three doors from that of Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was one of the youngest members of President Wilson's peace-treaty mission to Paris...