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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no logical reason to believe that Hitler would act any differently if he were a happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
...Welles said the German Government must surely be familiar with the fact that the recent policies pursued in Germany had shocked and confounded public opinion in the United States more profoundly than anything that had taken place in many decades, and such references to this state of public indignation as may have been made certainly represented the feeling of the overwhelming majority of the people of the United States...
...controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for foodstuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism...
...leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable that the Man of 1938 may make 1939 a year to be remembered...
Earlier in the week the Prime Minister had taken a severe tongue-lashing at the hands of shaggy-maned Liberal Lloyd George, Britain's Wartime Prime Minister. Supporting a Labor motion of "no confidence" in the Prime Minister, 75-year-old Lloyd George, one of the best showmen in the House of Commons, had the M.P.s rolling in the aisles when he twitted the 69-year-old Prime Minister about his age and lack of courage. Of Mr. Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier at Munich, Lloyd George declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their...