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...majority of Britons have had a complacent four months (see p. 31), relieved that the war was so far away. A growing and articulate minority was more disturbed than at any time since Munich. These people wondered bitterly why Britain had done so little to help the best-armed ally she has had. They questioned Churchill's decision not to speak freely to Parliament about the war on the Eastern Front. They marveled that a member of the British Cabinet should openly say, as Viscount Halifax had said in Washington this month, that Britain is unable to make...
...Born in Munich, Viereck arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...
...Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better figure," so Thyssen footed up for that too. "Goring seemed a most agreeable person. In political...
...Chief Delegate Lord Beaverbrook, perfectly comfortable in Moscow with his devoted valet nicknamed Secret Weapon, and figure that the Beaver would not make much sacrifice. They could figure that Russia was not aiding the U.S. in the same direct military way as it was aiding Britain. They could recall Munich, chide British tardiness in arming in the first "phony" months of the war, criticize British failure to invade the continent this summer. They could complain about Russian secretiveness and suspicion...
Gottfried Feder marched with Hitler in the abortive Munich Putsch of 1923. When Hitler came to power ten years later he made Feder Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economics...