Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paper Protests." "When the toes of small powers are trampled upon by England, Germany expects them to do more than take it with a smile," declared a Nazi Foreign Office spokesman...
...Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER," "ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND REPORT." Piqued, the Dutch Government threatened to expel foreign newsmen who sensationalized...
...Provided." In Berlin, the Foreign Office persistently pooh-poohed the idea of an invasion of either country. When, however, Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
...hrer Hitler was a "cornered maniac," "this monstrous apparition," "that evil man." The Führer and his Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were "those marvelous twin contortionists" and Dr. Paul Joseph Göebbels and his Ministry for Propaganda and Enlightenment were labeled a "leather-lunged propaganda machine" which indulges in "bloodcurdling threats...
...Most significant straws in the wind blew down from Moscow. To the often-asked question of "How much of an ally is Soviet Russia of Nazi Germany?" the answer came last week. "No ally at all." Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov diplomatically kept mum on the subject, but the Kremlin's alter ego, the Communist International, was encouraged to handle the Nazis just about as roughly as French and British capitalists...