Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When such opinion tends toward unanimity, it is a force which a government cannot possibly overlook and will not fail to reflect in its policies and actions...
...unity of Great Germany in itself an ignoble ideal. ... It was not the incorporation of Austria and the Sudeten Germans in the Reich which so much shocked public opinion in the world as the unscrupulous and hateful methods which Herr Hitler employed to precipitate an incorporation which would probably have peacefully come in due course of its own volition and in accordance with the established principle of self-determination...
...People are apt, in my opinion, to exaggerate the malign influence of Herr von Ribbentrop, Dr. Goebbels, Herr Himmler and the rest. It was probably consistently sinister, not because of its suggestiveness (since Herr Hitler alone decided policy) . . . but because, if Herr Hitler appeared to hesitate, the extremists of the Party at once proceeded to fabricate situations calculated to drive Herr Hitler into courses which even he at times shrank from risking. The simplest method of doing this was through the medium of a controlled press...
...Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer alone who decides.' If anything did count, it was the opinion of his mili tary advisers...
When the war began, Britain's Ministry of Information kept Britain practically without information for three weeks. Then public opinion revolted, British newspapers raged at the Government for keeping silent, Lords and Commons made open fun of the censors. So Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain quickly set up a new Department of Press Censorship and News Distribution, which occupies the same building that housed the Ministry, and is mostly staffed by the same censors. Here are the first pictures to show them at their work, no longer bungling quite so badly as they...