Word: chancellor
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Changes. Not all of Adolf Hitler's birthdays since he came to power have been celebrated thus. In 1933, only three months after he first became Chancellor, the public birthday celebration was confined to the wearing of edelweiss, the Führer's favorite flower. The first birthday parade was held in 1935, but it was small compared to those yet to come and to that held last week...
...BERLIN--Chancellor Adolf Hitler today ordered the Reichstag to meet April 28 to hear his answer to what the Nazi-controlled press described as President Roosevelt's "hafe message." Coincidentally reports that Hitler might become master of Danzig within a few days increased...
...Cabinet itself was split by the issue. Lord Halifax, Minister of Health Walter Elliot, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, were for no more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin...
Thus the campaign was completed, all but the mopping up operations. On Thursday morning Chancellor Hitler announced receipt of a telegram from Dr. Jozef Tiso, for two days stooge President of newly "independent" Slovakia. "In supreme confidence in you," it said, ". . . the Slovak State places itself under your protection." With equally supreme confidence in himself, Adolf Hitler swallowed Slovakia whole. Now Germany had a common border with Carpatho-Ukraine, which Hungary announced she was annexing...
Next day the Chamber's native chancellor, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, made a sympathetic speech acknowledging the grievances. Then the princes drove home in their lavender limousines and gold-plated sports jobs...