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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's expulsions of Jews (see p. 30) represented Il Duce's idea of "the cheapest way" to keep his relations with Der Führer close & friendly while at the same time the Premier made clear that last week he was neither backing nor encouraging a German move into Czechoslovakia-quite the reverse. Less interested in downing Jews than in upping Italians, Benito Mussolini has long pursued a campaign to make his countrymen proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs...
...wear down the grass of the Zeppelin Meadow. Hitler writes but a henchman reads the Fuhrer's annual opening Proclamation at Nürnberg. Millions of Europeans hoped he would end the suspense over Czechoslovakia one way or the other by revealing his intentions in this proclamation. But Der Fuhrer had a whole week of speech-making to his Nazis before him. and the Proclamation only heightened the world's suspense by saying, with reference to Germany's self-sufficiency, "the idea of a blockade of Germany already may be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon...
...Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...came & went, and U. S. headlines were again reassuring. Next day, in an editorial entitled "Der Tag," the New York Times suggested that publicity was good for war scares: "Never before have Governments and peoples been so alert to danger as they are today. That explains the constant alarm signals. Perhaps it also explains why 'the day' is always postponed...
...Germany since 1914, the reactions of the German people last week were marked nervousness and alarm -reactions noted and factually cabled by the leading correspondents in Germany, quite unhindered. It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization. Der Führer, who thus far has had only to rattle the German sword to get what he wanted piecemeal, was rattling his loudest for the benefit of Lord Runciman in Prague...