Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which all Berlin afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone will immediately realize, so that the campaign of lies of the English warmongers would find it easier to accomplish its dark plans." This plunged Germans into visible gloom, some weeping openly in the streets of Berlin. Thus in no uncertain fashion did the anti-Nazi Freedom Station show Adolf Hitler how jumpy were the nerves of his people, how desperate their longing for peace in spite of their great victory over Poland. The phenomenon...
...official spokesman cracked: "The allegations should be dealt with in the special jokes department." Nevertheless, it was a pretty compliment, and an eminently justifiable one, to the potent British espionage-propaganda system which, by the tearful post-war testimony of Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg, did more to undermine German resistance in 1918 than all the Allies' guns...
...contemplate. If not, the sooner we stop the war and arrange for the tabling of our respective grievances. . . the better. . . . Our Premier's pledge to Poland was quite explicit. We were to come to her aid 'with all our resources,' which meant that when the first German soldier crossed the Polish frontier the Royal Air Force would bomb Berlin...
...London's Daily Worker, Communist organ, whether he favored peace negotiations and an immediate armistice, answered: "I'm in favor of negotiations . . . but a philosopher-or a God-might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
...late August he wrote a pamphlet How to Win the War. He was primarily responsible for a Sept. 2 manifesto declaring British Communists were ready to join the war against German Fascism. But that pamphlet was later withdrawn, and on Oct. 7 the Party's Central Committee printed a "correction" of the September manifesto. Britain, France and Poland were blamed equally with Germany for starting an "imperialist war." Last week Secretary Pollitt lost his job, although not his Party membership...