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What they said was that had Führer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded, ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank...
...believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering, at the Führer's mighty handiwork...
London and Paris. From the democratic countries, correspondents could not report news as electrifying as the Führer's bombshell. There were no bold moves, flaming pronouncements, or grandiose imaginative surprises aimed at unnerving their potential enemy. Stories were of a first deep shock, a quick recovery, then of wheels turning, of preparations, meetings, mobilizations. Unlike the period before Munich, when the fleet was mobilized before the Army, when British and French diplomats seemed to work at cross purposes, no hitches or jerks showed in British-French preparations. Parliament assembled smoothly and gravely. War powers went...
...would be a one-front war, and the Army would like that. And those Czechs, who might have been hard to hold down, they would like it, too. A shock, yes, but once more they could feel a real security. Their Führer had again played a masterful stroke, like that march into the Rhineland, like Austria, like Czechoslovakia. ... He was a Genius...
...shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band struck up the Communist Internationale and everybody stood up. Gossip even got around that that great German Communist, Ernst Thalmann, who once polled three times as many votes as the Führer himself, was to be released from a concentration camp. Along the Wilhelmstrasse, knowing officials bet 20 bottles of champagne to one there would...