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...drown him out. By order of J. Stalin all Soviet stations were respectfully silent during the Reichstag speech (see p. 34) and Russian listeners who understood German heard every word.* Soviet comment was uniformly favorable, particularly as to the Führer's claim that Eastern Europe is now a sphere of Soviet-German influence in which they will tolerate no intervention by Britain and France...
...Soviet newspaper translations of the speech into Russian made a few minor but significant changes. Where Hitler named "Stalin" this was changed to "Russia." The Führer's assertion that "Soviet Russia remains Soviet Russia and National Socialist Germany remains National Socialist Germany" was telescoped and softened into "Russia remains Russia and Germany remains Germany...
...started many suspected that Italy declared neutrality because her big ally Germany thought Italy would be more helpful as a friendly neutral than as a warring partner. Whatever Germany's advice in the matter (and gossip in Roman diplomatic circles has it that the Führer tried to persuade the Italians to attack Yugoslavia at the time the Germans attacked the Poles), all evidence points to the belief that neutrality was also Italy's own sincere choice. Nor are there lacking indications that the first cracks in the Rome-Berlin Axis have begun to appear. The belief...
Instead of helping Adolf Hitler last week by emerging as an "honest broker" to try to sell Britain and France a Nazi Peace (see p. 34), Premier Benito Mussolini left the Führer to speak exclusively for himself, plunged into strictly Italian (and peaceful) activities. Fascist newsorgans politely termed Herr Hitler's vague terms as so "constructive, realistic" that they ought to be accepted, but there was little conviction that they would be accepted, even if understood...
Tight Belt. That Italy wants peace quickly and badly cannot be doubted. Her neutrality is so precarious that the Führer's "last" chance for peace may also be Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer...