Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Hitler returned from his triumphal tour of Czecho-Slovakia last March, he was high-spirited, buoyant, talkative. Arriving in Berlin, he summoned Josef Lipski, solemn-visaged Polish Ambassador. Whipped up to "a mood of immense elation," Hitler chattered cheerily on his trip, his impressions of conquered Prague, suddenly fell silent and announced ominously: "The time has come to flatten out the obstacles to the permanent friendship of Germany and Poland...
Ambassador Lipski listened dutifully to Hitler's proposals for a friendly flattening, raced straight to the station, caught an express to Warsaw, where Foreign Minister Josef Beck's auto was waiting to rush him to M. Beck's home. Three hours later Polish police were pulling reservists from their beds. French and British Ambassadors were summoned to hear M. Lipski's account of Herr Hitler's travelogue...
...rarely do prophecies turn out right that these triumphs overshadowed notable Augur misses. But in 1932 he observed that Poland would soon achieve a position of power in Europe greater than Italy's; after the first anti-Semitic outbreaks under the Nazis he considered it likely that Hitler would try to make peace with the people he has wronged." He also prophesied that Hitler would drop his demands for colonies in return for a free hand in Central Europe. A month before Germany occupied Czecho-Slovakia Augur released an inside story to the effect that Hitler was contemplating restoring...
...mild to increase Britain's military might sensationally, too strong to be interpreted only as a gesture on the eve of Hitler's Reichstag speech, conscription was primarily important in signalizing another break in Britain's traditions, another change in the status of British labor, another change in the status of British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service...
While a few M. P.s groaned "ohhh," there was no really important dissent. Every M. P. and most of his constituents knew that the reasons why Britons were going to have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...