Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporting Hitler's march into Czecho-Slovakia for a New York paper, he said that the Nazi move came as no surprise to foreign correspondents in Prague. "We had expected it for several months before it occurred, and the only reason the American papers seemed so upset about it is that they didn't follow their foreign correspondents...
...Hitler's attack on the Czechs is just a part of the great expansion, within and without, which the Germans are having, Sheean said. The German press and radio is so censored that the people have lost interest in Hitler's dramatic moves, he went on. They were more concerned with a new cheap car the government is building than in the seizure of the Czechs...
...scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...Welles's word "temporary" neatly conveyed Mr. Roosevelt's wishful conviction that Herr Hitler's ultimate downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt...
...which Franklin Roosevelt referred in his January message to Congress when he discussed dealing with the Dictators. It is expected to put an end to Germany's export trade to the U. S., which amounted to $92,000,000 in 1937, $64,000,000 last year. Said Adolf Hitler last January. "The German people must export...