Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business Policy. Best lines: "Stop being half way for a sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
...policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...
...President Roosevelt's proposal that Germany guarantee neighboring States against aggression, although the blistering Reichstag speech of the Führer in reply to Mr. Roosevelt is given. In effect, the White Book argues that if all the events of the last 20 years are taken as a whole, there can be no doubt that Germans and Germany have always been right. Nearest thing to a juicy revelation is the disclosure that shortly before the Führer and the late Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation in Warsaw...
Peace on Whose Terms? Ascetic Viscount Halifax, angered by the whole debate, replied for His Majesty's Government: "I entirely decline to see this country put in the dock of international affairs and held in any way to blame comparable to Germany for the tragedy into which the world has fallen. . . . I am quite certain that Hitler is very anxious for peace-on his own terms. I am not sure he is anxious for peace on terms which would make for the peace of Europe. . . . The argument tonight rests on the premise that there exists today a reasonably possible...
Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and Germany's Attempts Under National Socialism to Reach an Understanding with Poland." This is largely made up of reports by German diplomats and consuls in Poland of "injustices" and "atrocities" suffered by expatriate Germans at the hands of Poles. The short second section, "The British War Policy," accusingly produces...