Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German genius for science and organization, the English genius for government and commerce, the French genius for living and understanding of life-they must not go down here as well as on the other side. Here in America they can be blended to form the greatest genius...
...Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...
Like the bombshell of the German-Russian Pact (TIME, Aug. 28), it changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling...
...found the drama otherwise than their imaginations had pictured. People who recalled troops going off to battle in World War I remembered singing crowds, enthusiasm, cheers, tears, flowers, flags, and were puzzled at the stoic silence, the grave efficiency, that marked the moves of this war. But as the German-Russian Pact was followed by German-Russian military action in Poland, World War II revealed its great difference: it was a war in which diplomatic moves, propaganda barrages, economic agreements, were planned like military campaigns; in which statesmen acted like Generals and Generals acted like statesmen...
...after? What would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace by Germany? Or would Italy join Russia and Germany in some sudden, staggering move as explosive as the midnight announcement of the German-Russian Pact...