Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audience. What gave World War II its hectic, high-speed air? Unlike any war in history, its outcome, scope, character, depended less on the antagonists than on those who watched the fighting. Not maneuvers on the plains of Poland, but Moscow's opinions about them, about the German army, about German plans, were historically decisive; not the sinking of British freighters, but Mussolini's opinion as to the strength of the British fleet, forecast the future of war. Only 206,000,000 of Europe's 462,000,000 were officially at war last week.* But never...
British situation was the reverse. Great Britain came out of World War I with a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...
...hours after Great Britain entered her state of War with Germany.* In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill celebrated his return as First Lord of the Admiralty with a speech in which he said: "It [the Athenia] was certainly torpedoed without the slightest warning and in circumstances which the opinion of the world after the late War-in which Germany concurred-had stigmatized as inhumane. . . .The ship was not armed as an auxiliary cruiser...
...Nationalist until 1932, in that year he broke with Alfred Hugenberg, threw his influence behind Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he rewarded Stooge Lammers with the job of Undersecretary of the Chancellery. Author of many fat books on legal questions, Dr. Lammers produced the legal opinion which, after Paul von Hindenburg's death in 1934, made Hitler dictator for life...
...turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque swirl of uncountable figures. But Leonardo's passion for scientific precision and classical finish, in Kenneth Clark's opinion, checked, delayed and exhausted...