Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only losers"; about "millions of men uselessly sent to death and milliards of riches destroyed." He even made a short bow to free trade and the sanctity of the borders of minor nations. It was as though, after six years, he realized he had about exhausted Mein Kampf not only as a platform but as a point of appeal, and had been compelled to appeal to some...
...Even before Herr Hitler proposed that "the leading nations . . . come together to draw up, accept and guarantee a statute on a comprehensive basis which will insure for them all a sense of security," Neville Chamberlain had practically turned him down. "No mere assurances from the present German Government," said he, "could be accepted...
...what of Hitler's record as a conferee? Until last week he never used the word conference in other than an abusive sense. He has yet to answer Franklin D. Roosevelt's April invitation to a world peace-&-security conference. His diplomatic dealings have been consistently bilateral, even in the Axis. Italy did not sit in on the Russian Pact. Furthermore, conferring is clearly not Adolf Hitler's dish. He cannot listen...
...Even then there was a worldwide feeling that a great revolution in human affairs was imminent; the phrase 'A war to end war' expressed that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since...
...almost 50 years, thought Mr. Chamberlain's rejection a bit hasty. "I think it is very important," he said, "that we should not come to a too hurried conclusion." He did not want Great Britain to make any more enemies, particularly of Italy and Russia. He was even willing to keep an open mind about the possible impossibility of restoring Poland to the Polish Republic. The territory that Russia took from Poland "certainly is not Polish," Mr. Lloyd George said. He wanted whatever peace terms were being delivered to receive "very, very careful consideration...