Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three, Four, Five. If the Count is to be believed, the German-Italian pact was signed on expectations that Italy would have three peaceful years and the Reich would have four or five. Meanwhile it was hoped that the Reich would get Danzig, and possibly the Polish Corridor, without provoking a European...
...Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow on the 23rd to sign the pact of non-aggression between the Reich and the U. S. S. R.," recounted Count Ciano...
...saying that Britain and France are fighting to produce a "change of heart" in Germany, Lord Darnley argued that: "A free offer [of peace] would more likely produce a change of heart and the security we require from Germany. The only satisfactory guarantee we ever will obtain is [German] good will." According to the noble Lord, Britain "in the years after Versailles [failed] to conciliate Germany," and Adolf Hitler has "aimed partly to make his country free and prosperous, but chiefly and mainly absolutely to free it from any danger in the future, and so every threat we made made...
...Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...
...about the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, any member could secure a secret session by calling to the Speaker, "I spy strangers!" But after this cry had ejected the German Ambassador and the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, the procedure was modified...