Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke these cannon-forging words, and while he apostrophized brave, dutiful George Washington later the same day (see p. 14), a very different, far more dramatic message by him was being handed around secretly among his closest advisers for final editing. This was a direct personal message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, to whom he released it over the State Department's wires at 9 o'clock that Friday evening. Coupled with this message in the President's mind was a momentous order to the U. S. Navy. The President had decided that the eleventh hour...
Slowly, with time out for explanatory interpolations, the President read his words to A. Hitler and B. Mussolini...
...have repeatedly asserted that you [Hitler] and the German people have no desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. ... It is still clear to me that international problems can be solved at the council table. ... I trust that you may be willing to make such a statement of policy to me as the head of a nation far removed from Europe in order that I, acting only with the responsibility and obligation of a friendly intermediary, may communicate such declaration to other nations...
SARAJEVO, Jugoslavia--Thirty persons were arrested tonight after disorders in this "birthplace" of the World War in which demonstrators shouted "Down with Hitler. Down with Mussolini...
Meanwhile, thousands of Jugoslav military reservists called to the colors as a defense measure, marched through the countryside shouting contempt of Hitler and Mussolini...