Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently the Nazi secretaries stomped up his front steps. They clicked their heels and announced in brusque German that they had come to take possession...
...secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced, the Nazi secretaries stomped down the steps, with some thing very like a bellyache...
What Next? Where Germany would next plant her military boots was the next question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...
...France Premier Edouard Daladier, discarding protests as mere "words, words, words," went before Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...Warsaw, anti-Nazi students held demonstrations and the Polish Government, having long and magnificently sat on the fence between warring dictatorships and democracies, was represented as having finally concluded that it must now make a choice-which way it still did not know...