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...embargo on arms to all belligerents gives Adolf Hitler almost the equivalent of an Atlantic fleet, because Great Britain and France can get no arms from the U. S. 2) Britain and France are fighting the fight of democracy against world revolution, are not just engaged in another imperialistic quarrel...
...would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain did not say what the House had nerved itself to hear, that Britain had declared war. Before Mr. Chamberlain left he spoke to Winston Churchill...
...Cabinet worked to settle on a formula that might mean peace without retreat. At last they composed their answer: urged negotiation, offered mediation, agreed to discuss the German colonial question, trade relations and even reduction of armaments-but not in an atmosphere of war. Hitler must settle his quarrel with Poland, and Britain would stand by her ally. Sir Nevile boarded a plane for Berlin as crowds at Heston Airport shouted: "Good luck...
...Europe that the difference between maneuvers and real war is that maneuvers can be called off if the troops get stalled, the tanks run out of gas, the weather gets bad, the people get restless, the boss gets sick, the theories prove wrong, and the generals begin to quarrel...
World War I proved it. In 1914 many nations refused to stake their political fate in the quarrel between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. But one & all-Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Spain and notably the U. S.-found their economic destiny involved. For World War I profoundly altered every important economy in two hemispheres...