Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But strong as these sorry reasons were, two splendid ways of looking at his neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain...
Before announcing his neutrality, Mussolini had gone through the motions of an Axis partner about to go to work. He conducted a mobilization so complete that, when they realized its scope, it shocked his people. The nation was blacked out. Coffee was forbidden to all but soldiers, gasoline to all...
But, each in his own way, the Spokesmen played their parts magnificently. Incomprehensible or mad to most of the world, a simple, injured man in his own eyes, Adolf Hitler fulfilled his destiny, as lonely as King Lear on the windswept heath, raced off through Europe's darkest night...
Week after week through the strain of last summer, observers have totted up the figures on Europe's arms. Week after week they have speculated on strength and strategy: how strong is France's Maginot Line, Germany's West Wall? How long can Poland hold out? How...
In the confusion the only certainty remained what it had been in Europe-that peace seemed worth almost every sacrifice, that morally Adolf Hitler had been stopped. Said the New York Times, premier U. S. newspaper: ". . . We know where responsibility lies for this reckless act that has plunged Europe into...