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...battalions on the Nazi model or as combatant additions to the present army, which has already been increased from 30,000 to 38,000 men by short-term enlistments. Most of Europe had been expecting this, received the news calmly. Not so the Little Entente. In Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade, statesmen sputtered melodramatically that if Hungary followed Austria's lead, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would mobilize. For the record all three sent notes of pained protest to little Austria, reserving the right at a later date "to make public the measures" they might take to protect their interests...
...League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet again in Geneva...
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...