Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacts with Herr Hitler are not finding a very good market at the present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts. Obviously, all four would have liked to reply to Germany in unison: "Thank you, Herr Hitler, but we don't want any pacts...
...after the Stockholm meeting, the diplomatic representatives in Germany of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark went to the German Foreign Office to present their countries' replies to German State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the united Oslo Powers front was broken. Sweden, Finland, Norway thanked Herr Hitler for his interest in their welfare, reaffirmed their neutrality, politely declined the Führer's offer. Denmark replied that the Danish Government would be happy to discuss the terms of a non-aggression treaty with the German Government...
Aggression Pact. The Oslo Powers' replies made Herr Hitler's score of pact-seeking: four acceptances (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark) and four rejections (The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland). None of these acceptances or rejections, however, held anything like the importance of a pact-signing that took place in Berlin early this week. There Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop put their names to a ten-year treaty which seemed to outsiders not so much a pact of non-aggression as one of aggression...
Tours. Although there was hope that the "war of nerves" waged by Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
Great Proletarians. Little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels smeared the front page of Herr Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter with some international rabble-rousing which he might well have cribbed from Joseph Stalin: Germany and Italy are the "great proletarian powers among European nations, robbed of their natural living rights by plutocratic States that have amassed vast riches by plundering and oppressing whole continents." For the Poles he chose these words: "Such silly childish political infants must be taught with a whip on the pants...