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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main line of Britain's publicity as it appeared outside Great Britain during Lord Macmillan's first week was not to arouse hatred against Germany, but to show that normal European life was impossible unless Hitler was overthrown; not to arouse awe of Britain's military might, but to win confidence in Britain's aims...
...British Royal Navy, already at battle stations, controlled the Mediterranean at both ends and had blockaded Germany completely from the North Sea to the Skagerrak. This action, now that Germany had access to Russia's food and raw materials, meant less than it did in World War I unless the British were prepared for the desperate adventure of forcing and commanding the Baltic...
...Berlin Sir Nevile gave Ribbentrop Britain's ultimatum: "Unless the German Government are prepared to give His Majesty's Government an assurance that the German Government have suspended all aggressive action against Poland, and are prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will, without hesitation, fulfill their obligations to Poland." At the same time M. Coulondre presented an almost identic ultimatum from the French...
September 3 (Sunday). In Berlin at 9 a. m. Sir Nevile gave the German Government this message: "I have the honor . . . to inform you that unless not later than 11 a. m. . . . today . . . satisfactory assurances have been given by the German Government . . . a state of war will exist between the two countries." Daladier informed Hitler that France would consider herself at war at 5 p. m. unless the Germans gave up their war against Poland...
This week to a very few earnest people this cabala from the short-wave Voz de Guatemala meant: "War must be prevented. Do not let false reports inflame you. Relations can always be amicably settled. Unless a nation is really bloodthirsty, there is no reason for war. We must not let propaganda flood our brains and stop our reasoning. Stop and think! War is not necessary...