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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crisis Visit No. 1 (August 23) with Hitler: "During the whole of this first conversation Hitler was excitable and uncompromising. He made no long speeches, but his language was violent and exaggerated both as regards England and Poland. . . . While I did not wish to try to deny that persecutions occurred (of Poles also in Germany) the German press accounts were highly exaggerated. He had mentioned the castration of Germans. I happened to be aware of one case. The German in question was a sex maniac who had been treated as he deserved. Hitler's retort was that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Hitler Visit No. 2 (later the same day): ". . . He was quite calm the second time and never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of extermination. Nations could not be exterminated and a peaceful, prosperous Germany was a British interest. His answer was that it was England who was fighting for the lesser races whereas he was fighting only for Germany: Germans would this time fight to the last man: it would have been different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Third Hitler visit (August 25): "The only signs of excitement on Herr Hitler's part were when he referred to Polish persecutions. . . . [He] said there had been an other case of castration. Among the points mentioned by Herr Hitler were: That the only winner of another European war would be Japan ; that he was by nature an artist, not a politician, and once the Polish question had been settled he would end his life as an artist not as a warmonger; he did not want to turn Germany into nothing but a military barracks and he would only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Turkey. Lights burned all night in the Foreign Ministry at Ankara, where Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu (pronounced Sarro-joe-glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Power | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...boasts a mosaic pavement and an altar stone, fragments of the Roman church of the Loaves & Fishes which was built to commemorate Christ's miracle on the other side of the lake. To Tabgha in the past 30 years have gone tourists, British officials, archeologists, Bible students, to visit not the Roman relics but the big, blue-eyed, square-bearded monk who discovered them, Father John Tapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Galilee's King | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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