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...politics. Because he wants to go to war with a hard-headed conviction that it is to our own materialistic interest to do so -- not starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe, we will soon be driven to resist that force in Brazil or somewhere in what was left of the British Empire." The English navy is essential to the maintenance of peace in the Far East...
...Ministry of Shipping, to succeed Sir John Gilmour, who died last fortnight, went strapping, ambitious Robert Spear Hudson, a blunt ex-diplomat who as Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade was one of the junior ministers who revolted against Neville Chamberlain after Munich. After Chamberlain warned the rebels to play ball, Hudson played ball. Last summer he took credit for Behind-the-Scenes-Man Sir Horace Wilson's abortive plan to offer Germany credits and access to world markets in exchange for peace. Said the Spectator last week: "His appointment . . . over the head of Sir Arthur Salter, whose...
...last week Benito Mussolini was a thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce...
...wife had a little money, and so she and Göring went to Munich, where the future head of Germany's Four-Year Plan enrolled in the University for a course in economics. He seldom attended lectures, took no examinations. He had heard Hitler speak. In December 1922 Hitler made him organizer of the Storm Troops. In the Munich Putsch of November 1923 Göring marched at the head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated...
...year after the 1926 amnesty Göring returned to Munich, without his wife, who had no money left to accompany him. During the next year he reorganized the Storm Troops. In 1928 he was elected to the Reichstag as one of the first twelve Nazi delegates. In 1930 there were 107 Nazis in the Reichstag, and Göring was their leader...