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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of Europe things were getting tough for Italy. In Moscow, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Stalin divided Poland with not so much as a by-your-leave to Benito Mussolini, who wants an ethnic Polish state where 20,000,000 good Polish Catholics might live with the blessing of the Pope. The Balkans, which Italy thought would turn to her while Germany was at war, turned to Russia instead...
...Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler...
...sent to the airdrome to greet Herr von Ribbentrop than when he came to sign the Communazi Pact which emboldened Germany to plunge into World War II (TIME, Aug. 28). There was even a Red Army band (there had been none before), but Germany and Russia were not yet good enough friends for it to burst into either the Horst Wessel song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely tootled a Red Air Force ditty, Higher and Higher...
...Permanent Boundary." According to the covertly disgruntled Germans, Herr von Ribbentrop was in Moscow not out of Baltic anxiety but to negotiate the final partition of Poland, cement the new Russo-German ties still more firmly and secure J. Stalin's good offices in bringing pressure upon Great Britain and France to back out of World...
Questions and Answers. England and France declared war on Germany, superficially because Poland was attacked, fundamentally because "Hitlerism must go." Helping Poland was an immediate consideration, but avenging Poland, eventually executing her murderer for the good of all, is the ultimate consideration...