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...year, to 18 months, to two years-this over the bitter opposition of most French politicians. He has confidence in the Army he has built. During the Munich crisis he believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization...
...Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn "how not to run a government...
...that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since Adolf Hitler became Führer in 1933 Mr. Churchill has been preaching rearmament. He was one of the first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop the Nazis and last year urged that Britain seek an alliance with Soviet Russia. Most of the dangers he has warned...
...coterie obviously did not believe a word of it, and there were even non-Nazis who shared the Führer's skepticism. It was all very well to talk of determination to obstruct "aggression," "attack." "force," "domination" and such like, but why should British (and French) statesmen be so skittish in mentioning the simple word Danzig? Not one did. Even so, the parade of British orators giving Germany advice last week was impressive...
...British will fight before they will let the Nazis take Danzig, nothing seems more certain than that the French will too. Last week the French Government was not yet sure of its ally, however, and French statesmen, like the British, were not so specific over Danzig as the Paris (or London) press thought they should be. Nevertheless, the Government was ready to put the nation overnight on a war footing...