Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Minister was racing from one Axis capital to another, and no word of his policy appeared in their press; they were involved in a growing Polish-German conflict, but did not know how deeply; they were menaced by troop movements that had nothing to do with Hungarian conflicts. Result was that Hungarians high and low wanted to be Hungarians and nothing else. Whether the Axis ran from Berlin to Rome or from Berlin to Moscow, Hungarians were determined to close their ranks...
...smoke Count Csaky out. Said Tibor Eckhardt, head of the Independent Agrarian Party: "Our Foreign Minister once said that we had to demonstrate our loyalty to friendly countries in difficult times. I agree with him, but this loyalty must extend to all our friends. If . . . a German-Polish conflict breaks out, under no circumstances can we interfere." Then he challenged the Government-"Admiral Hoi thy pledged Hungary to independence and neutrality, let the Foreign Minister repeat the pledge...
...assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon and at 6 p. m. each day; a war of barter deals, whispering campaigns, mystification, currency raids, posters, mass meetings, blackouts-weapons against which military men can only point their guns in vain. Military maneuvers are but an adjunct in this weird conflict. It has its positions that must be taken, its genius, Adolf Hitler, its victims, like Dr. Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, its troops, the hardened ranks of editors and orators, its battlegrounds, like Danzig, its staff headquarters, like Berchtesgaden. And it has its heroes...
...even the Germans, only other people to celebrate the anniversary of the World War, thought up such a metaphor to describe the conflict. But Marshal Smigly-Rydz made it clear that it was not war, but Polish independence, that made the date memorable, warned against the use of force in Danzig, mentioned the military agreements with Poland's friends, and said peace for Poles could never mean "take" for one nation, and "give" for another. Day after he spoke the Danzig Senate was reported to have accepted the Polish offer to negotiate...
...plans are not war plans once they have been made public, and General Gamelin's are not exceptions. Nobody but the French high command knows what the French Army intends to do if & when it comes in conflict with the Axis. Best semiprofessional guess suggests it would try to knock the spots off Italy's northern industrial area by air, call up all its 5,000,000 reserves, sit tight behind its Maginot Line and see what happened. A hint in favor of the last course comes from a remark General Gamelin made when asked if the French...