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...week in which U. S. citizens could measure, more clearly than at any time since World War II began, the distance between the peaceful world that President Roosevelt visualized and the aims of Nazi Germany as Propaganda Minister Goebbels once defined them: "To unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses of men on the march, to organize hate and suspicion with ice-cold calculation." It was a week, too, in which the President's picture of a good peace was measured against World Revolution as Lenin once presented its tasks-destroying the old order from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: President & Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Shanghai last week this aging adventurer sounded off once more. Chao Kung called upon the Governments of Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia to resign simultaneously as prelude to a peace conference. Otherwise, he darkly predicted, "the Tibetan Buddhist supreme masters, without prejudice, pre-direction or favor, will unchain forces and powers whose very existence is unknown to you and against whose operations you are consequently helpless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Again, Chao Kung | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...wreaked with modern weapons, news of German book-burnings, of anti-Semitic outbreaks, of a bloody purge, news of statesmen who seemed only masters of vituperation and violence. What could be expected from a country whose leaders believed, in Propaganda Minister Goebbels' words, that their mission was "to unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses of men on the march, to organize hate and suspicion with ice-cold calculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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