Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Army made one false step in Danzig's direction. The Warsaw press urged the Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish Parliament and say their say about Herr Hitler. An unnamed spokesman for the British Cabinet declared: "If Poland fights, Britain and France will fight...
Four times the Führer has delivered before the Reichstag, generally on January 30, the anniversary of the Nazis' coming to power, a long, serious "state-of-the-nation" speech. Six extraordinary sessions have been called. On one of those occasions in July 1934, the Führer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
...proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried stenographers, he dressed up in a little-worn dinner jacket and went (along with five carloads of detectives) to the Metropole Theatre where he saw, for the second time, a 19-year-old U. S. girl named Miriam Verne dance in a musical comedy...
...Germans did not think Herr Hitler's speech very funny, however. In it they discovered that Herr Hitler was not just repeating the by now tiresome tirade against the Treaty of Versailles and explaining anew his championing of "self-determination," but obliquely announcing new principles of German foreign policy and international conduct...
Reactions. The Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...