Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms." He warned Britain and France that "real peace" will be impossible to get if they insist on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland regaining their independence. Nor will Italy, declared Ciano, attempt to create a Balkan Bloc. In a slap at the Allied blockade control he concluded: "Italy continues to follow...
...Germans and Germany have always been right. Nearest thing to a juicy revelation is the disclosure that shortly before the Führer and the late Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation in Warsaw was advised by the Berlin Foreign Office that the Pact "in no sense includes recognition of the present German east border but on the contrary brings to expression that with this document a basis for the solution of all problems, including herewith the territorial, is to be created...
...Bishop of Chichester joined with Lords Darnley and Arnold in plumping for peace-without-victory, observing that the Government had not "taken seriously" the efforts of neutrals to mediate. Outstanding in the stuffy Church of England as a progressive student of social and industrial problems, the Bishop sharply criticized Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax for stipulating fortnight ago that Germany must offer "adequate guarantees" before peace negotiations can begin. Cried the Bishop: "Military, naval and economic guarantees which satisfy the most exacting critics have a way, after 20 years, of recoiling like boomerangs...
...burst with pride at the latest achievement of laborious German scholarship, secretaries of the Berlin Foreign Office last week called in correspondents of all nations to inspect a 100,000-word White Book titled Documentary pre-History of War. Published simultaneously in twelve languages, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's rebuttal to Lord Halifax consists of 482 documents adduced to prove the complete war guiltlessness of Nazi Germany...
Correspondents were told Lord Halifax's British Blue Book was a poor thing, hastily published immediately after the outbreak of hostilities, not a scholarly work at all. The Foreign Office spokesman carefully emphasized that the White Book, much longer, and published three months after the outbreak of the war, is a scholarly, accurate German work...