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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler...
...change was approved by U. S. Secretary-of State Cordell Hull, who officially announced: "Mere seizure of territory . . . does not extinguish the legal existence of a government. . . . For the present at least Mr. [Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel] Biddle will remain near the government to which he has been accredited...
...chief risk of losing a war lies in trying to 'win the war'- by pursuing the mirage of decisive victory on the battle field. . . . Under present conditions, it would be folly for Britain and France to attempt offensive strategy in the West, at any rate in the early stages...
Other student papers were more restrained, contented themselves with warnings and prayers. Said the Yale Daily News: "Secure from a military and economic standpoint, America will only become involved in the present war if she again heeds propagandist pleas to preserve democracy and stamp out Hitlerism. Let us be on guard against being persuaded to fight for the economic interests of England and France...
Ralph Hinchman Cutler Jr., returning as a senior to Harvard after a summer abroad, wrote in the Crimson: "In the present European war there is only one thing at stake: the supremacy and preponderance of the British Empire. The war appears to be merely a clash of rival imperialisms...