Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the conferees were at it again early. The mystery and the tension grew. Rumors flew that German troops were about to strike through The Netherlands, that a Nazi ultimatum had been delivered to the Low Countries. Not until nightfall, after Leopold had returned to his own capital, was released the text of an appeal for peace signed by the two sovereigns and sent to George VI of Britain, President Lebrun of France, and Führer Hitler of Germany...
...explained the details of the starting of the present war,--how Hitler suddenly found unbearable a non-aggression pact with Poland, which three months before had been publicly solidified by a speech in Warsaw of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...then--September, 1939. War brought a new way of life. As the German advance careened through Poland, first silence, then tension and despair gripped the embassy at Washington. The name of Potocki took on a new meaning, not just spokesman for Poland, but the leader, the unifying strength of thousands of Poles in America who listened eagerly to his every message of hope. On September 19th, as Warsaw held out for the last straw of independence, Potocki was already looking to the future: "If the enemy shall succeed in Poland, the time will come, as it has so often...
When Margin for Error was having its pre-Broadway tryout in Washington, the German Embassy obligingly gave it free publicity by protesting to Secretary Hull that the play was "derogatory" to the Reich. But, though the Nazi Consul is hardly a Chevalier Bayard, and Hitlerism is scarcely recommended to U. S. audiences, Margin for Error is much less propaganda than entertainment. At its best it is both: somebody asks, "What would Hitler say if he found out that his mother was Jewish?", is answered, "He would say he's Jesus...
Describing Hitler as "that monster apparition" and "that evil man over there," Churchill challenged the German Chancellor to unleash the merciless blows which the Nazis have been threatening...