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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predominion of one people upon the tragic ruins of a neighbor, nor to subscribe to public pacts to cover the maliciousness of secret treaties, nor to proscribe races, nor to persecute religions." So roundly did he condemn totalitarianism that he had to explain that Latin American dictatorships "have never been imperialist or totalitarian." Most of them, he said, were merely patriarchies to educate childlike peoples in the direction of democracy...
...noncompliance" by belligerent Great Britain with the terms of an 1859 treaty by which Guatemala granted Britain Honduras, Guatemala has for some time claimed the territory. By the treaty Great Britain agreed to build a road from Guatemala City to the Atlantic, but has never done so. This, claims Guatemala, voids the treaty. Last week busy Great Britain indicated it was "disposed" to negotiate...
...very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile's own shrewdness, courage and humor, and above all a never-to-be-forgotten firsthand sketch of Hitler the conqueror, screamer, wizard, fox, weird...
...Hitler Visit No. 2 (later the same day): ". . . He was quite calm the second time and never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of extermination. Nations could not be exterminated and a peaceful, prosperous Germany was a British interest. His answer was that it was England who was fighting for the lesser races whereas he was fighting only for Germany: Germans would this time fight to the last man: it would have been different...
Regarding the Polish guarantees Sir Nevile said : "Our word was our word, and we had never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...