Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poles refused, knowing very well that if they took part in such a plan they would soon become vassals of Germany. This infuriated Hitler who saw his plans in the East were stopped...
Characterizing the present European puzzle as a "game of skilled politicians," Timasheff believes that in settling the Czechoslovakian problem, Great Britain and France gave Hitler a free hand in Russia. "Hitler was sure Poland would agree to a plan for lopping off part of the Ukraine and dividing the spoils. Germany would get Danzig and part of the Corridor in addition to part to the Ukraine which would be split between the two countries...
...opinion" he said, "the events of September, 1938, at Munich, resulted in a terribly suspicious attitude of the Soviet rulers towards England and France. Governing circles in Moscow felt that Russia was actually given over to Hitler as an object for further annexation...
Last spring, while Hitler was marching on Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Weinberger, who had scurried off to the U. S., put the finishing touches to his variations. In Manhattan last week, John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave them a first performance in Carnegie Hall. The Philharmonic's first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went...
...HUNDREDTH YEAR-Philip Guedalla-Doubleday, Doran ($3). The fateful year of 1936 (hundredth since Victoria's accession), when Hitler militarized the Rhineland, Italy conquered Abyssinia, Franco started the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt was reflected and Edward Windsor left the throne of England, presented in smooth, newsreel episodes by the smooth author of The Hundred Years (TIME...