Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombshell of the German-Russian Pact (TIME, Aug. 28), it changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling...
...said Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before Parliament on his return from meeting with the Supreme War Council "somewhere in France" (see p. 28), would not end if & when Poland broke. It would end only when Britain and France had "put an end, once and for all, to the intolerable strain of living under the threat of Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there...
Thus with great circumspection the Dictator told the people what part of Poland Russia intended to get-i.e., the Polish Ukraine, the northeast area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then suddenly, as the Germans struck southward toward Polish oil fields, cutting off Polish retreat to Rumania, getting within 80 miles of the Russian frontier, Russian troops crossed the Polish border on a 500-mi. front (see p...
Prelude to 1939. For the kind of warfare that Germany is now waging, preparations are twofold, and the first preparation is defense. Without its Westwall, where a major battle was in progress last week (see p. 28), Germany might have been overrun almost as fast as it overran Poland. As soon as he took command of the Army, Brauchitsch began pressing for the completion of the fortifications in the West. Not until the Westwall was completed could Germany strike in the East. Hitler observed: "It will make the French Army a prisoner in France...
...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin (see p...