Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
Italy. Most strategic neutral, Italy was profoundly impressed by Germany's advance ; as the Army reached Warsaw, jeers at Britain filled the Italian press. Although Germany announced that after the Polish victory the Führer would return to Berchtesgaden to have a chat with Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, although the German radio ridiculed attempts to "lure away the Italians from their Teutonic allies," Mussolini...
...appeals for sympathy. Twenty-one days after the German-Russian pact, eleven days after the German invasion began, nine days after Britain's declaration of war, four days after Germany announced the capture of Warsaw, three days after Goring heralded victory and for propaganda purposes offered peace, the Polish gate between totalitarian Germany and totalitarian Russia was still defended. To convince the world it had fallen, Germans raced breathlessly in a week through the cycle-war for the sake of effect, victory for Germans at home, peace for the sake of propaganda. But even before the cycle was complete...
...piled up the cheering news: Victory in Poland within two weeks ("our divisions marched as humans never marched before") would release 70 divisions for the Western Front. At the moment Germany's coal ran short-"and I might say at that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that Britain and France could be divided-"England will fight to the last Frenchmen-remember that...
...explain to Germans, why peace with Adolf Hitler was impossible. In a broadcast to Germany Prime Minister Chamberlain was polite: "You are told by your Government that you are fighting because Poland rejected your leader's offer. . . . The so-called 'offer' was made to the Polish Ambassador . . . two hours before the announcement by your Government that it had been 'rejected...