Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barthou's theory that to try to please everyone was nonsense and that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that...
...this pact! It has been signed in the absence of Germany with regret for her absence and in the hope of her eventual adherence. France has never ceased to desire to draw Germany into the general work of guaranteeing peace. Our most ardent wish is to see the Reich retake her place at Geneva on a footing of absolute equality as a member of the League of Nations...
When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...
Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
...asked to be chosen Prime Minister of Prussia while I was Chancellor, because as Prime Minister I could not be dismissed by the Reich President without consent of the Prussian Parliament. However, as Chancellor, the President could dismiss me," declared Bruening...