Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circumstances" which bludgeoned Rumania into signing the treaty consisted largely of troop movements by old as well as new enemies. Führer Hitler had massed German soldiers in the eastern tip of his new protectorate of Slovakia, only 75 miles from the Rumanian frontier. If Rumania was physically to fall to Germany (after Hungary had also fallen), other jackal nations might have a chance to dash in and grab a few mouthfuls as they did twice in Czecho-Slovakia. The Hungarian Army lined up 300,000 men on the Rumanian border. Even little Bulgaria, to the south, mobilized...
...defunct Little Entente, is at present a member of the Balkan Entente.) For a day or two it seemed to the outside world that Britain and France might rescue her from German pressure. But in the end Rumania signed on the dotted line. With that signature Adolf Hitler made his biggest killing to date. This week Rumanian Premier Armand Calinescu pathetically denied that his country had lost any of her independence...
...more territory Adolf Hitler takes, the more his financial ministers have to worry about. Last week they announced a desperate "New Financial Plan" which illustrates why German economists have grey hair...
...Stop Hitler" movement initiated by Great Britain after the seizure of Czecho-Slovakia petered out ignominiously last week. Adolf Hitler was not likely to be stopped so far as Britain and France were concerned. British (and, for that matter, French) prestige fell to new lows on the Continent...
Britain had planned a pious milk-&-water declaration against further aggression. But the nations on Adolf Hitler's list of probable victims wanted a hard-&-fast promise of military help. Moreover, The Netherlands and Switzerland, remembering that France had once sworn to defend Czecho-Slovakia and that both France and England had talked about guaranteeing dismembered Czecho-Slovakia's frontiers, let it be known that they are not interested in French and British guarantees at all. Rumania's pistol-point signature to an economic alliance with Germany showed what that country thought of the "Stop Hitler" campaign...