Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for this fear lies simply and solely in an unbridled agitation on the part of the press . . . which in the end goes so far that interventions from another planet are believed possible and cause scenes of desperate alarm...
...That it would be far cheaper to "buy peace" beforehand than to pay for such a war during and after...
...Instead of promising Europe more guns with which to commit suicide, instead of making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
Sessions of the German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...
Last week the Reichstag was again called to meet in extraordinary session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House,* but it was far from a solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried...