Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give Hitler his due, he did not want this war-he certainly would have preferred another Munich...
...that remembered the starvation of 1918. Violence of his denunciations of British leaflet propaganda dumped on Germany suggested an underlying fear of it: "To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect! Chamberlain may know something about umbrellas, but he knows nothing about German propaganda. . . . No, Mr. Chamberlain, we want peace, but giving up the Führer, as others think we might, is too big a price to pay for peace...
...gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick, no crazy man. ... I'd love to kill...
...came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops to guard against desertion. Passive resistance was reported rife in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, with former anti-Nazis being rounded...
...Union of South Africa's aging Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, with a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, fought for three years against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in this one. For the Union is made up of four polyglot provinces, two Crown colonies and controls by League mandate a former colony of Germany's, and the outstanding element in its history has been the internal clash of nationalities-natives, Dutchmen, Britons, Germans-not its interest in Europe...