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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army Commander: General Edward Smigly-Rydz (see p...
...Spokesmen played their parts magnificently. Incomprehensible or mad to most of the world, a simple, injured man in his own eyes, Adolf Hitler fulfilled his destiny, as lonely as King Lear on the windswept heath, raced off through Europe's darkest night talking of victory or death (see p. 28). Laconic Edouard Daladier talked like a soldier of war and of the way to fight it. High-minded Chamberlain and grave Halifax, two Shakespearean characters in a tragic drama, spoke of right, of justice, of the moral problems of the conflict (see p. 27). Benito Mussolini, as befitted...
...began. While the King was speaking the German armies were driving to smash the Polish defensive triangle of Lwow-Lublin-Cracow before winter weather aided the Poles. While the bombers were loading, the Chancelleries were preparing their papers to place the guilt of launching the war (see p. 20). Then, the spokesmen stepped from the stage of history; the silent generals took their place...
...Italy's war of nerves seemed settling to a state of siege as slow as the siege of Vicksburg. Now and then a stray shell-a blackout, rumors of French-British pressure (see p. 21), whispers of a dire Axis plot- sailed over and rolled along the streets. >Nobody paid much attention when the Russian Ambassador to Berlin was suddenly jerked home, replaced with a diplomatic greenhorn who had been Premier Molotov's assistant in the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. But in the Balkans there was a tremor of fright like those involuntary shudders people...
...they saw it as an obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict out of their minds. Or they made no distinction between the antagonists, thought of them struggling for the same ends by different- and generally deceptive-means. Or they went South American or Russian (see p. 35), viewed with frank satisfaction making money from the war. Or they decided that the whole turmoil baffled understanding, that its reports held no truth, the speeches of all its spokesmen held some hidden meaning that by the chemistry of distance was lost as it crossed the Atlantic...