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...worry the Poles. They figured that J. Stalin was merely planting his men to make sure A. Hitler did not forget to stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...
...Third great line of German propaganda: to prepare for a peace move after the conquest of Poland. This was done not only in Marshal Goring's Berlin speech-of-the-week, but through the papers of Axis chums in Italy. If peace did not come, the gambit had another usefulness. Germany had no way to escape the guilt of firing the first shot of the war, but the Nazis hoped to create the impression that the British and French could stop...
...REVOLUTION OF NIHILISM-Hermann Rauschning-Alliance ($3). Already famous in Europe, where it appeared in 1938, The Revolution of Nihilism predicted the Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia and an eventual German-Russian alliance...
Many a scientist, contemplating with heavy heart last week the outbreak of war in Europe, recalled with bitterness the layman's charge that "Science has made war horrible." Scientists do not feel that science is responsible for the frightfulness of modern war. They have pursued the conquest of nature in their laboratories and it is not their guilt if men of bad will have snatched up their discoveries and misapplied them to the conquest and murder of man. The first man who discovered that fire could be made by twirling sticks or striking flints was, in a sense...
...there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever be a trusted friend of British democracy...