Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus in the most candid German fashion the Nazi election cat was extracted from the bag last week by Adolf Hitler and swung by the tail before the eyes of London statesmen. Whatever they did not see, they heard in Nazi electioneering speeches...
...London the entire course of negotiation was toward Peace without Punishment last week, and in their efforts to contrive this the harassed statesmen daily got to bed about 3 a. m. Faces grew haggard and tempers short, but there was always French champagne at London's diplomatic meals and the pleasure of being accorded a private audience with His Majesty the King-a pleasure generously bestowed all round by Edward VIII last week, notably upon Hitler's von Ribbentrop...
Significance. While polishing up their orations for delivery this week, London Naval Conference statesmen said in candid asides last week: "The new Treaty is preferable to not signing anything...
From this it was a natural transition for Adolf Hitler to picture himself and Germany as the parties injured by French, British, Italian and Belgian statesmen in finding Germany guilty at London last week of treaty violation. In these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually...
...Propaganda Ministry confiscated an edition of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in which weepy quotes from the Realmleader appeared and he was his belligerent self before 40,000 at Hamburg. "There are statesmen," he roared, "who . . . would introduce a new defamation of the German nation! If they could look ahead through the next decade they would be frightened...