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...nerves of the vast throng crowded into Berlin's big, barnlike Kroll Opera House one night last week. Behind the splendor of flashing uniforms and shining boots there was a great straining wonder. Only a few hours before, Adolf Hitler had announced the secret summoning of his war Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with decorations and gold braid...
Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech (see p. 21) was not transmitted over Russian stations. The German radio announced that the speech had been translated into and rebroadcast in every conceivable language-except Russian. The Russian radio failed even to mention the speech. All this in spite of Herr Hitler's confident statement on Russo-German relations: "A veritable Wandering Jew among [British] hopes is the belief in the possibility of a fresh estrangement between Germany and Russia." Working like a beaver on those hopes in Moscow last week was Britain's new Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps...
...last week suave, hard-driving Lewis Allen Weiss, vice president and general manager of the 31-station Don Lee Broadcasting System network on the Pacific Coast, sat in his Los Angeles office listening to Adolf Hitler address the Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated...
Meanwhile Russia and Germany got along. Between 1921 and 1929 eight major treaties were signed between Russia and Germany. Even during the first year of Hitler's power, relations continued to be agreeable. Said Hitler to the Reichstag early in 1934: "Despite the great difference between the two outlooks on life, the German Reich has endeavored to look after its friendly relations with Russia...
April 26. Britain conscription begins. Hitler in a Reichstag speech asks for Danzig, denounces Anglo-German Naval Treaty and Polish Ten-Year Treaty...