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...drift off to exile. In 1905 he had taken an oath "to maintain the national independence and the integrity of territory," a simple thing it seemed, to promise, since the nations of Europe had all vowed to preserve forever Belgian independence and territorial integrity. But nine years later a madman in a crooked street fired a shot which found its mark. The Chancellor of Imperial Germany, a gentle, weak, and honest man, explained to the Reichstag that the nation had her back to the wall and could think of only one thing--how to back her way through. The German...
That section of Adolf speech which dealt specifically (and with welcome frankness) with Franco-German relations, ought to have thrown a wet blanket over the hot foreign presses. The Chancellor declared in his best manner that only a madman would even consider a war between France and the Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous...
...Adams, and Mr. Jay was equal to that between Jay the Huguenot and le Comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister, or between de Vergennes and Charles James Fox. To quote an historian, "Adams thought Franklin was an atheist of no morality, and Franklin thought that Adams was a madman who was all the more dangerous as he was honest...
...dictator to another Josef Stalin sent last week to Josef Pilsudski an extraordinary personal gift. It comprised a bulky sheaf of time-worn documents Every one of them damned the present Dictator of Poland as a radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
Petersburg (now Leningrad) from which he and a genuine madman escaped Item: 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War able Conspirator Pilsudski rushed around the world to Tokyo and nearly persuaded the Imperial Japanese Government to finance a Polish revolution against Tsar Nicholas II. The Japanese took Conspirator Pilsudski so seriously that they made a solemn agreement by the terms of which prisoners of war who turned out to have been born in the then Russian Poland were kept separate from other "Russian" prisoners in Japan while Polish organizations arranged for their transport to Polish colonies in the neutral U.S. Items...