Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After receiving from Dictator Hitler a shoulder-shrugging reply to his first appeal for negotiations to continue, the President caused the 54 head U. S. diplomats accredited to a foreign country-except the ones through whom copies of the first Roosevelt-to-Hitler appeal had been relayed-to communicate at once to all the various chiefs of state Mr. Roosevelt's belief that an appeal by each of them to Herr Hitler might have cumulative effect...
Then the President proceeded to draft his second appeal to Adolf Hitler, urging not only continued negotiation of the German-Czech issues but also a broad discussion, among all the powers directly interested, of questions correlated with those issues. Said President to Fuhrer: "Hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity...
This plea the President further backed up by cabling a personal suggestion to Benito Mussolini that he say a restraining word to Herr Hitler. Mussolini already urged to this by Prime Minister Chamberlain (see p.15), had already talked to Herr Hitler by telephone when Ambassador Phillips in Rome arrived with Mr. Roosevelt's message. Announcement of Hitler's decision to hold the four-power meeting at Munich followed so soon after these two Roosevelt messages that the appearance of cause-&-effect was inevitable...
...center of Europe should collapse because of the bluff and power of a Fascist state and the acquiescence of two allied democracies is an event unprecedented. Discouraging are reports from the outraged Czechs when they heard how their former protectors and allies had backed down, those of Hitler's apparent willingness to throw the world into a war. And there is no real assurance that he will not do this very thing after the Munich pact...
...real peace can come out of the Munich pact, Emerson said, predicting Italy as the next scene of trouble. "We are up against a reign of force," he stated, and suggested that Hitler's tactics and extraordinary success are the logical culmination of an international system of which force is the basis...