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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under him. His contacts with common life around him have become more and more remote so that he has come to accept himself as a Messiah. So surrounded is he by adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep guffaws are more frightening than ever to adults, although children still respond to them...
...censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal with a Marconi company. As Minister of Munitions in 1915 he was praised for his efficiency, but the next year when he was Prime Minister, he was scolded for meddling in military matters about which he knew very little. Ever since the War he has been criticized for helping to bungle the Versailles Treaty. He has been criticized for his terrific ambition, his impetuousness, even for his long mane and exaggerated cloaks...
Meantime his decisions are based on the opinions of an ever-narrowing group of advisers. The adoring Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, who follows his leader even in his moods, is still constantly at his side. But the Führer has become so inaccessible to most of his Cabinet that only Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Goebbels are now able to ask for and get private interviews. Five-sevenths along his Biblically allotted span of life, this strange man has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has become the most formidable political tactician...
...Page, leader of the Country Party, Acting Prime Minister since Joe Lyons' death, had promised to carry on until a new Ministry was formed, possibly hoping that he might form it. But Sir Earle resigned in a huff and delivered one of the bitterest speeches Australian politics had ever heard. He accused Robert Menzies of being a stubborn mule, a backstabber, a coward. As proof of the last epithet, he charged that Mr. Menzies had resigned from the Army during the War instead of going overseas. Like many another Briton, Robert Menzies stayed at home to finance the family...
...been wounded; an unknown number of civilians died as a result of the War. "Not until our children's time can the former joy of life come into the world," Bliss remarked. "And it can come then only if our culminating work makes it impossible for them ever to see another such...