Word: rhineland
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...Brains is an ancient American institution, streamlined to the nines by Adolf Hitler. So ingeniously did he wage this war that he won every one of the first battles of diplomacy, from the audacious occupation of the Rhineland down through Munich. The first time Hitler lost a diplomatic battle, he had to go to war. The U.S. brain war has been fought from an almost exactly reverse position. The U.S. has lost every diplomatic battle so far, except for Latin America...
...Siam, the 44th, abstained. Mr. Matsuoka gathered his papers, stalked out, his suite scuttling after him. His arguments had failed to convince, but Japan got away with the Manchuria grab and the note he set at Geneva was echoed later by Italy over Ethiopia and by Germany over the Rhineland...
...young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles Treaty and post-war diplomacy, the authors go hard on France, easy on Britain. Politically unclassifiable, Graves & Hodge are proLabor, but regard the Left-Right split as a continental...
When Germany took the Rhineland Mussolini had an attack of ulcers. When Hitler conducted his blood purge Mussolini began losing his hair (and he has grown bald since then). When Hitler grabbed Austria, Mussolini had a heart attack. When Germany and Russia signed their Non-Aggression Pact, Mussolini was fitted for glasses (and he does wear glasses now). When Germany invaded Poland, Mussolini couldn't sleep...
...Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council.) Sir Robert had a hand in all the steps that led to Britain's isolation: the knifing of Locarno (when Britain would not support France against the German occupation of the Rhineland); the Anglo-German Naval Pact of 1935 (when Britain made a deal behind France's back); the Hoare-Laval deal over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British...