Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...
Last week the Reichstag was again called to meet in extraordinary session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House,* but it was far from a solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried...
...President of the United States has addressed a telegram to me, the curious contents of which you are already familiar with," began Dictator Hitler amid much tittering. The Führer then chopped up Mr. Roosevelt's telegram into 21 parts, prefacing his replies (see p. 11) to each of the parts with the word Antwort ("answer"). Each time he changed his inflection of Antwort; each time he got guffaws from the gallery and deputies. Big moment in hilarity came when the Führer got to Question No. 18 and read down the list of the 31 nations...
...Germans did not think Herr Hitler's speech very funny, however. In it they discovered that Herr Hitler was not just repeating the by now tiresome tirade against the Treaty of Versailles and explaining anew his championing of "self-determination," but obliquely announcing new principles of German foreign policy and international conduct...
...British Admiralty is likely to grow grey-haired over the immediate possibility of Adolf Hitler's small Navy overtaking the over-sized British Navy. The denunciation of the Polish Treaty, however, was far more serious. Herr Hitler disclosed that he had "proposed" to Poland that the Free City of Danzig, now under the League of Nations and the Polish customs union, be returned as a free state to the Reich and that Poland cede Germany a road and a railway right-of-way through the Polish Corridor. In return, Germany promised to recognize Polish economic rights in Danzig, assure...