Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most ominous troop movement was in the Polish Corridor near Danzig, the Free City attached to the Polish customs union but ruled by an all-Nazi government. The Germans of Danzig (about 380,000) have long clamored for a "home in the Reich"; Adolf Hitler has long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...
...More important were the Mehrer's "treaties." One with Lithuania made that country increasingly a Nazi economic domain. And an unprecedented economic agreement with Rumania, signed under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...fact that no actual German military aggression had taken place gave Russia and the democracies a chance to turn their eyes from the eastbound Nazi steam roller. The German-Rumanian treaty, which in time is expected to reduce if not wipe out all commerce between Rumania and other States, provides that...
...warning, giving formal status to Nazi pressure against Poland in what some quarters regarded as a prelude to possible demands regarding Danzig and the Polish-Corridor, was made by the Foreign. Office organ "Diplomatische Politikal Korrespondenz...
...followed Nazi accusations of the "deplorable mistreatment" of German men and women in the Bromberg section of the Polish Corridor and an announcement in Warsaw that "baby bonds" would be floated among the people to raise $228,000,000 for air force and anti-aircraft expansion...