Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What kind of concession could Germany make that would save Allied face? Best bet seemed to be a pint-sized "ethnographic" Polish State around Warsaw. Herr Hitler spoke mistily of further central European ethnographic shifts. An "autonomous" Polish State could always be rigged in favor of the Nazis to save them face. But if the Allied negotiator held out for an autonomous CzechoSlovakia, and there was much talk in the House of Commons about that, the negotiations would probably not get very...
...have the majority edge. Would Italy sit in with Russia? Benito Mussolini has been trying for years to get a four-power conference together, but in his plan Russia was the wallflower. That Russia is very much interested in current peace-talking was evident from the official reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This is a matter of taste. But to undertake war for 'the annihilation of Hitlerism' means to commit an act of criminal folly...
...conferees would presumably undertake as their main job the codifying of Herr Hitler's "statute of security." Security sounds good to the French; it is their favorite national word. Statute sounds good to the British. With talk of Russian pressure on India (see p. 43), with more than talk of Japanese pressure in the Far East, the British would presumably welcome and help enforce any reasonable legality which would insure an ordered world. It would not have to be a British world, either, but a shared responsibility...
...what of Hitler's record as a conferee? Until last week he never used the word conference in other than an abusive sense. He has yet to answer Franklin D. Roosevelt's April invitation to a world peace-&-security conference. His diplomatic dealings have been consistently bilateral, even in the Axis. Italy did not sit in on the Russian Pact. Furthermore, conferring is clearly not Adolf Hitler's dish. He cannot listen...
...Encyclical? Nobody listened to the Reichstag speech with more attention than Pius XII. He canceled all Vatican engagements and gave his radio ear (he speaks German). The Pope was reported as being "favorably impressed by the moderate tone of the speech and especially by the fact that Herr Hitler did not utter drastic threats or set a time limit for acceptance of his peace proposals." Pope Pius suspended work on his peace encyclical pending further Allied reactions...