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...broadcast to the French people their new Premier belligerently declared that "everything is being done to establish the hegemony of the Reich over a great part of Europe." If that came to pass "it will be all over with liberty. It will be all over with France." The 17-vote Premier said he was not too worried about acquiring strong Parliamentary backing. "Unity will come about," promised Paul Reynaud. "We don't want to attain it by adroit maneuvers but by results of our action. We are going to the test with our heads high, not prepared to submit...
From the swallowing-up of Austria (March 1938) until last September, Britain's gates were hospitably open to refugees from three countries now incorporated in her enemy, the Reich. Some 74,000 aliens took up residence in England, in all walks of life. Only casual tab was kept on them. Restrictions on their activities were slight. Among the harmless, pitiable many were a sly, scheming few who have since served the German cause by getting employment near military centres or in war industries. Britain's huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard...
...like. They worship Hitler in a mystical sort of way. They love Göring and call him "wiser Hermann." "Our Hermann." To the German people Göring is the embodiment of the satiation of all their own more normal appetites. They love sport. Göring is Reich's Master of the Hunt, lives in the middle of a 100,000-acre game preserve, imports falcons from Iceland to pursue that medieval sport. He plays tennis in the garden behind his palace in Berlin, wearing a hairnet to keep his long reddish hair from falling away from...
...Ministry, to eat, to drink and possibly to talk war. In spite of many other posts he holds, the Air Ministry is closest to Göring's heart. He is not only Minister for Aviation but also Supreme Commander of the Air Force of the Reich. He deserves his titles. He built the German Air Force from nothing to supremacy in Europe in two short years. The world knows how he did it under the cover of: 1) an Air Sports League commanded by his old friend Bruno Loerzer; 2) a German Air Defense League under the presidency...
...people would be willing to underwrite. As Mr. Welles prepared to sail for home. Rome reported that he carried a Hitler eleven-point peace proposal. The points: 1) general disarmament; 2) formation of a small, independent Poland; 3) Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to be allied to the Reich; 4) Austria forever in the Reich; 5) return of German colonies within 25 years; 6) formation of a Danubian Federation bossed by Germany and Italy; 7) guarantee of the Balkan status quo; 8) Germany's remaining Jews to migrate; 9) no trade barriers; 10) free passage of the Suez beginning...