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Just what did impulsive Realmleader Adolf Hitler mean when he told cool British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon that Germany is ready to sign a pact of non-aggression with any of her neighbors except Lithuania...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. *After news of how Hitler out-talked Simon & Eden began to excite world mirth, an irate official of the Wilhelmstrasse declared, "There was no 'Hitler monolog.' The conversations lasted for eight hours and never at any time did the Leader speak uninterruptedly for more than 20 minutes...
...murder with pamphlet maps suggesting that Germany and Jugoslavia should cooperate in arms. A fantastic "Map of Europe in 1935" showed Jugoslavia gorged with Italian and Austrian territory while "Greater Germany" had been so extended as to include Alsace-Lorraine, the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania and enough of Italy to give Germany a sea coast adjoining Jugoslavia on the Adriatic. "This Nazi propaganda bore fruit," charged Messaggero, "in the assistance Jugoslavia gave the Nazis in Austria and the mobilization of Jugoslavian armed forces to counterbalance Italy's action...
Only Finland has paid her debt in full to date. Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Italy. Latvia and Lithuania have made token payments. The rest have defaulted. No mention did the President make of the Johnson Act which forbids all future public or private loans to defaulting nations. But in Washington early this week British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay sent the State Department a note announcing that, because the Johnson Act invalidates token payments, Great Britain would pay not another farthing "until it becomes possible to discuss an ultimate settlement of the intergovernmental war debts with a reasonable prospect of agreement." Same...
...satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before 1917 and in all of them still goes on a constant struggle of German v. Russian influence. Latvia is mostly an agricultural country. The Letts are an amiable, broad-faced people. Russian for more than 100 years...