Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before, B. Mussolini's Council of Ministers announced that in the German-Polish war, "whose origin lies in the Versailles Treaty," Italy would take no part. And B. Mussolini, in his reply to Franklin Roosevelt's plea for humane bombing (see p. 13), repeated once more that Italy was not fighting anyone just...
...have other work to perform." To Sir Nevile, Hitler was quoted as having said: ''All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils. I am tired of politics, and as soon as I have carried out my program for Germany I shall take up my painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me, not for what I have done for Germany...
Everybody knew how the Dominions and the colonies would take it. Nobody was surprised that Australia and New Zealand last week declared war on Germany, called up reservists, promised Britain "full support." That 50 Indian potentates promised to send troops and resources, that the Fiji Islands (pop. 29,000) pledged material assistance-what did this mean except that the British Empire was acting as it always acted in a crisis...
...myself am today, and will be from now on, nothing but the soldier of the German Reich; just as I fought in the last war, so I will fight now. I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon...
...track, humorous, dynamic, with the gigantic, inspirational mind of a fanatical leader; Smigly-Rydz, graceful, versatile, serious, dull, with a big mind, too, but a professor's logical, inquisitive, with a good memory. But they liked each other, and Pilsudski persuaded the young student to give up painting and take up sharpshooting. He did, so enthusiastically that by 1916 he won a gold watch as the best marksman in the (then Austrian) Army. He fought under his leader against Russia on the Eastern Front of the World War, and afterwards fought the ill-armed Bolsheviks in Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine...