Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler. The messianic dictator laid a strong claim to divine chaperonage...
Smart Speaker Hitler twisted history to suit his argument...
Reactions. The Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...
...Virginio Gayda, journalistic mouthpiece of Dictator Benito Mussolini, Herr Hitler's words were the answer not only to the President but to the "French-British policy of encirclement." Worldwide opinion, however, remained about the same as it was before either message or speech: that Adolf Hitler would not be curbed by words. But if he was strictly truthful for once in a public utterance, the world had been given a pretty good idea of where the next trouble spot was situated...
Dorothy Thompson prophesied that Adolf Hitler would never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines...