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Thus the peace bluff of Adolf Hitler was officially called. His retort, based on canny intuition that the Great Powers would not fight, was to seize even more than they had offered to barter. Instead of limited German rearmament, Der Reichsführer proclaimed unlimited rearmament, decreed compulsory recruiting for an army of over half a million Germans and again professed peace (TIME, March...
...Paris learned of the British note and Sir John's decision only after the fact. But, most important to both onetime allies, Herr Hitler had neatly cut the ground from under their feet. All that Britain's Foreign Minister had to offer this week, Der Reichsführer had already boldly taken...
...Simon at the Realm-leader's pressing invitation (TIME, March 11). Nazi honor, they saw, must be satisfied by offering insult for insult. Soon an urgent cable informed Sir John Simon that his visit must be canceled "due to a slight cold with great hoarseness" contracted by Der Reichsführer. The German cancellation carried no expression of regret, no invitation for a later date. To rub in this diplomatic insult Adolf Hitler, who last month opened Berlin's Motor Show (TIME, Feb. 25), revisited its twelve acres of booths last week, talked loudly if hoarsely with...
...increase in British armaments, viewing German rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...
...newsorgans throughout the world denounced Der Reichsführer, wiseacres predicted that the furore would cause him to pardon somebody. Obliging Herr Hitler promptly fulfilled this prophecy, used his powers for the first time to prevent a beheading, saved and sent to 15 years imprisonment no woman but a man, one Bernard Pischon, sentenced to death for shooting a Storm Trooper...