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Tuesday September twenty-ninth nineteen-thirty six! From a little farmhouse in Alsace, just a stone's throw from the German Rhineland which Dictator Hitler has so recently fortified, comes this scene of European fear and trembling. It is the dining-room of Pierre Soubriquet, an Alsatian farmer like many of his kind. Around him are seated his wife, Adelaide, and their four young children. M. Soubriquet is speaking...
Anti-aircraft guns, sans doute! Herr Hitler has fortified the Rhineland you know...
Last week Britain, France and Belgium had invited Italy to sit later this month at Brussels on a conference as to what is to be done, if anything, about Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact by remilitarizing the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). After the Vienna broadcast it was sharply announced in Rome that Germany must be invited to Brussels and must accept before Italy will even consider sitting in, and Il Duce tagged on a few more things he wants before sending an Italian diplomat even to talk about Locarno...
...duly provoked. To this theme Leon Blum passed dexterously, seeking to reassure the Little Entente allies of France who today are afraid his new Socialist Cabinet may not prove trustworthy in their defense. "Because we had dedicated ourselves to peace," said the Premier, "we did not resist when the Rhineland was occupied in defiance of treaties. But, Messieurs, does anyone think our reaction would have been the same if [the Germans] had so much as touched our soil or the soil of other countries which we guarantee...
...This the Great Powers were delighted to do last week. They were most grateful that Dictator Kamâl Atatürk had not smacked them in the face by announcing that he had fortified the Dardanelles whether they liked it or not, as Adolf Hitler brashly militarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. What made Kamâl Atatürk's action the pink of Turkish politeness was that Turkey's Dictator is suspected of having almost completed secret fortification of the Dardanelles, might easily have been crude about...