Germany Fortifies Balkans Against Axis Partners
LENGYEL, EMIL
Germany Fortifies Balkans Against Axis Partners Hungary's New Borders Line Impassible Carpathians By EMIL LENGYEL Author of "The Danube" etc. T9E Balkan peninsula today.is in a most unusual...
...The time of the meeting and the nature of the settlement more than make up for the paucity of official information...
...They wanted to be comfortable, and so they believed Hitler's false promises, and neglected to read his published plans of world conquest...
...The new map of the Balkans contradicts these statements...
...We now realize that Hitler meant exactly what he said on March 16, 1936...
...It is to foe assumed that Count Teleki did not understate the Hungarian case...
...When they drape themselves with the mantle of civil liberties they should be arrested and put where they can not poison the public mind...
...The New Order in the Balkans is the prelude to the New Disorder...
...Thus it was that the lambs were lying down with the lions in the Balkans...
...There are immense mineral resources' ¦—aboundant low-grade manganese, copper, nickel, gold, monozite and other non-ferrous metals...
...For this there is a primary and a secondary reason...
...It would also revive the subversive popular front movement in this country and completely paralyze all efforts to cope with the Communist tactics which have already corrupted our liberal intellectuals, wrecked a large part of our labor'movement, and honeycombed our government departments with Stalinist agents...
...That -country is not only the pivot of Washington's Latin America policies...
...Europe perished not because Germany was strong, but because the democracies insisted upon remaining weak...
...Moreover, it can be assumed that the axis powers would not have dared to throw down the gauntlet to the United States had they not previously secured their West African positions...
...It was for this reason that the Axis powers had to act in such haste...
...The totalitarians among us should be allowed precisely the kind of freedom which they would grant to others...
...This is no fantastic dream, but an achievable object...
...And what is more important, neither Hitler nor Stalia can afford not to destroy American democracy, for-democracy is a perpetual challenge to the slave state...
...Fritz Thyssen's visit to South America a few years ago was reportedly connected with a Hitler move to control this mammoth iron and steel domain...
...There is nothing enigmatic in the inability of the naked fist to stop a tank...
...There are about one and a half million Italo-Brazilians...
...In addition to tropical . crops, such as sugar, manioc, nuts and-bananas, Brazil is ranidly becoming one, of the world's leading cotton producers...
...My morning paper tells me that conversations are being conducted with the Soviet ambassador, the former GPU finger man, Con-s tan tine Oinnansky, which are assumed to concern a proposed rapprochement with the Soviet Union as a counter-move to the Nazi-Fascist-Japanese alliance...
...All these countries were piled high with inflammable material...
...It shows the location of the nationalities of all pre-war Hungary, including, of course, Transylvania...
...She has about half the area and population of South America...
...Appeasement of Japan and passive defense of the hemisphere are today revealed in their true light, as self-delusion more deadly than calculated deception...
...The strategic purpose "Bid be to disperse American fighting •frength along three fronts, at the same taoe limiting the amount of our possible til to the Britishtlsles...
...The men in power in Brazil have, for the1 most part, been intimately associated with the intrigues of international fascism...
...It is clear that this frontier was chosen not because of ethnographical reasons but because of strategy...
...On this point Mr...
...The De Gaulle committee claims that the Nazis have been rapidly strengthening French fortifications in the Dakar area...
...Our "liberals" will fight it, honestly or dishonestly, depending on their affiliations, until the moment when they, like the French teachers, find themselves hopelessly enslaved...
...Of deurse Hitler plans to conquer- America...
...It will-immunize them to , gjeat deal of dangerous hokum, and'it will provide .jgg with a program of action...
...N the last few months a new order has been created on the * Balkans...
...Hungary was given practically all that part of the range which is strategically important...
...The progressives are the little people, the rank and filers who still believe in our American democracy, as Mr...
...Later developments in these stepping stones to mastery of the South Atlantic are shrouded by the heavy news censorship which cloaks axis military preparations...
...Recife, Brazil is no closer to our southernmost outpost (the new* base site in British Guiana) than it is to Dakar, West Africa...
...In the past it was the Balkans' unenviable privilege to be the cause or effect of nearly all European conflicts...
...This may refer to the order in East Asia...
...It has simply •"*jtrVan them...
...German munitions and officers could be ferried by air to the centers of rebellion...
...p^-'Washington, at this stage of the totalitarian against democratic America, is as confused and !!«>I»cent, and as afraid of offending the totalitarian Swab, as were the capitals of Continental Europe up L^every end...
...More than any other section of the<entire world it is dependent upon German trade...
...To be sure, he repudiated that speech, but only as a result of Washington pressure...
...Moreover, there is a huge, potential fifth column in that republic...
...The Japanese navy is much too weak to threaten the Americas directly, but a push toward the Netherlands East Indies would serve to tie up important English and American naval squadrons...
...the Integralist Party .'was outlawed...
...This looks very much like one of those diplomatic indiscretions which are intentionally committed in order to convey certain information to a third power...
...Indiscreet reports got abroad that the Germans had been telling the Hungarians that quiet must be restored to the Balkans...
...In possession of those heights, the Axis—particularly Germany—dominates the plains on which Russia may want to resume her southward march...
...Schlamm's New Book: Warns America Against Appeasement By Suzanne Lafollette tempted to say, after reading Mr...
...America is arming...
...The United States would face the almost impossible task of patroling several thousand miles of Brazilian coastline against arms smuggling, establishment of munitions caches and secret airfields...
...When he took Albania in the spring • of 1938, Italy became a Balkan country herself...
...But as Mr...
...Meanwhile reports were current abroad'about bloody clashes along the new Romanian-Russian frontier...
...else Russia would take advantage of the disorder...
...The reaction of the German press gave away no clue...
...Schlarrim'maTces'it clear in documented detail, that the-democracies of Europe went under because they tried to compromise with totalitarianism instead of fighting it...
...In the Btate of Minas Geraes, there is the Itabira -iron ore de* posit—^believed to be the largest in the w'orld...
...The governments themselves do not speak about it...
...The key Brazilian cities might fall into insurgent hands before United States aid for the Brazilian people could arrive...
...Then the importance 'of the Dakar-Recife line would become apparent...
...Tomorrow her independence may be reduced to the level of Slovakia, exercised only in the intervals the Reich does not need that, country for her own purposes...
...Before the outbreak of the present war, too, it was beliejrewT': that in some way or other the Balkans would be swept into thit' conflict...
...Some of them were most emphatic in expressing this opinion...
...in British, Guiana, we have a projected naval establishment...
...That perennially unfortunate peninsula was expected to be drawn into any European war...
...Rather it is to be assumed that he made all allowances in his country's favor...
...In Dakar, the Nazis have a powerful naval establishment...
...Roosevelt's Cabinet are known to favor such a move...
...If it takes the vitally important "jjgores which Mr...
...THESE regions have long played their * role in the German program for world domination...
...Germany may attack Brazil even if she believes it impossible to hold the country...
...Even before the outbreak of-the war, some of the Balkan countries transacted more titan one-half of their total trade with the Reich...
...To win, we must be united...
...It is not their nature to give information to the world...
...INURING 1937, Madame Darcy Vargas, wife of the president of Brazil...
...In order not to have to show too much of the Romanian color, Count Teleki made this gesture toward the hills...
...There is a great deal of sentiment in this country for precisely the policy of ipjeaserient which brought Europe to its rum...
...A good deal of American military material "would be used up in dislodging the ; Nazis, and military aid to England would accordingly be obstructed or postponed...
...A FEW words on the political and eco-*• nomic importance 6f Brazil...
...The most centrally located Balkan country, Bulgaria, transacted about seventy per cent of her trade with the Nazis...
...The German government made no official announcement of condemnation or approval...
...The Lindberghs and Mr...
...While the Vargas dictatorship is at present pro-United States, it would probably switch sides if fascist victory on a global scale appeared probable...
...I hope that National Socialism will one day extend over the world...
...Last Saturday it was announced that the Axis partners, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other, had their roles defined...
...It would be actively supported by ' the German-Brazilians, who dreamed of "Antarctic Germany" stretching from northern Brazil zo southern Argentina in the last war, and are today, in their majority, devoted adherents of Hitler...
...Roosevelt will continue to protect Communist fronts, while admonishing them that their activities will have precisely the effect their master in the Kremlin intends (Red Rid{pg Hood arguing with the wolf) and the "liberals" in-Congress will continue in terror of the Communist,-wing of the CIO in the belief that it represents the whole of American labor...
...Why the sudden hurry to satisfy their claims...
...The power of the Nazi military organization in Brazil is indicated by the fact that three years ago Germany was able to smuggle 5,000 Mausers and other muni- ( tions into certain Teutonic towns in southern Brazil where the populace was trained in military tactics by German World War veterans—all in preparation for an expected fascist revolution which never occurred...
...Nazi bombers could occupy Brazilian airfields previously made available by the local fifth column...
...What has this got to do with Dakar...
...The Kuhns and Browders should be forced to proclaim their real program—the -program of totalitarian slavery—instead of a pretended program of defense of democratic rights...
...The pattern was familiar...
...Neither Germany nor Italy want to have the Soviets in t^> heart of the Balkans...
...He stated quite clearly that the Bessarabian incident was cleared up with Russia and that from now on the two countries would act in harmony...
...It would not have happened for the first time that the nations of the peninsula Would have»taken advantage of an extraneous issue to get into the fight...
...While the diplomats were relying on Hitler's promises of "peace for our time," the' general staffs were putting in their place those French and British military experts who devised the methods of warfare which Hitler adopted and used with such 'spectacular success...
...It is well known that General Franco plans to gobble up Portugal in a united Iberian republic...
...The new order in the Balkans began when Russia moved into Bessarabia last summer...
...Her far-flung system of imperial outposts guarantees control of the main oceanic routes...
...This is the importance of Japan in the new strategy...
...to L~ important outrage committed by their "leaders...
...She did renounce her claims to all her other lost territories—Poland, Pin-land and the Baltic countries...
...Moreover, the failure of General De Gaulle's Dakar expedition • may eventually ' prove more unfortunate for the United States than for Britain...
...A Japanese assault on the D»teh East Indies and Philippines may be Whrdnized with German incursions on the South American mainland from West African bases...
...Her military and industrial resources are, at present, the mainstay of our security...
...Her fleet and air force guard the ^two Atlantic Oceans...
...The second novel ketor may be th* pre-eminence of naval "B land action in United States defense strategy...
...Those worried liberals' who today are eager to acknowledge 'the apparently superior totalitarian way of doing things' are precisely the very persons who opposed and still argue against the armament of democracies...
...TAKE, -for example, that outrageous hokum :now being peddled both by the honest and the dishonest Isclationists of the Hitler-Stalin advance guard, the ugsment that Hitler doesn't want to conquer America, uti that if he wanted to he couldn't possibly invade tS»ebuntry...
...In March, 1936, ex-Governor von Schnee boasted that "sixty per cent of the difficulties met by the French, Belgians and Portuguese in Africa are provoked by us...
...Even if he had not already announced it with the same cynical frankness as he long ago announced his plan rf European conquest, we should still be fools if we believed otherwise...
...Did she do so in agreement with the Axis powers and particularly in agreement with Germany...
...But the liberals are by now either...
...This accounts for the unexpected position of the Balkans...
...Schlamm gives a convincing "history" rfthe-'first phases of that conquest, based upon pre-jsely the same plan which was so successful in the European democracies, the same plan, indeed, upon ttieh the totalitarian invasion of this country is already proceeding...
...Their rugged northern and eastern sides are hard problems for any army...
...The coast of West Africa is perhaps equally crucial...
...D. professor of geography on the faculty of economics at the'University of Budapest...
...2.00...
...Such an "alliance" would, for one thing, leave Soviet ports open to shipments of vitally necessary supplies from the United States, and thus lessen the effectiveness of the British blockade...
...Admiral Augusto Schort, chief of naval aeronautics, and others, all went to Germany at the invitation of the Reich...
...undisputed Japanese control of Asiatic sea routes...
...Britain is a mighty ally and, at the same time, our first line trench...
...Alw'afc the very moment that I write these lines the Administration in Washington is flirting with 'THIS SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, a Call toAftion...
...UR politicians, left to themselves, will never extend this protection to the American people...
...It had been used in the Baltic countries, and the Baltic countries were no more...
...I HAVE before me a map prepared by the Prime Minister of * Hungary, Count Paul Te'eki, Ph...
...The map is in the pocket of a book published in this country in 1923: "The Evolution of Hungary and Its Place in European History...
...This is precisely the kind of thing that destroyed France and brought the British Empire to the verge of ruin...
...Schlamm urges as counter-moves „ the ideological offensive of the Stalinists and Nazis j2 this country, it will be only because the people back ¦00 insistently demand them...
...It merely registered events...
...Only the people back home—the little people— can save America, as the little people of England saved (we may dare to hope) the British Commonwealth...
...The chief of staff of the Brazilian army, General Goes Monteiro, at one time "assiduously frequented the German and Japanese embassies," according to the Buenos Aires Avance, and even received a few votes in the Integralist (fascist) primaries for president...
...Moscow ¦ never abandoned her claim to Bessarabia, which was detached 4 from her by Romania at the end of the first Great War...
...The Portuguese island possessions of the Azores, the Madeiras and the Cape Verdes and her African mainland colonies of Guinea and Angola," wrote Majors Eliot and Dupuy^ in // War Comes, "offer most valuable potential bases for attack against sea lanes in the Atlantic...
...It is they, with their lying manifestoes proclaiming th'e superior democracy of Stalin's slave society, who are the real reactionaries these days...
...The natural wealth of this undeveloped empire is enormous...
...The experience of Europe has...
...The French teachers even went so far as to declare that slavery was preferable to war...
...the idea of appeasing Stalin...
...Italy, too, has long considered the Balkans her own "spazio vitale...
...lo the people back home, then, I recommend this book ^the little people for whom our totalitarian or plain {^intellectuals have such boundless contempt, and fur whom their elected representatives in Washington wwTfteb a healthy respect...
...No doubt the assumption is correct, for at least three members of Mr...
...Tempers are notoriously hot in the Balkans Given the inflammab+e material and hot tempers, all conditions of a first-class display of warlike ardor were on hand...
...Not true...
...U. S. Vital Lines Lay on 3 Fronts: Britain, West Africa and the South Seas By Stephen Bandolier Tutl three-power 'agreement concluded 'between Germany, Italy and Japan ton* that the totalitarian alliance is prepaid to wage war on America...
...proved to the whole world that there can be no compromise lift Hitler...
...New York: E. P. i Button & Co...
...Petroleum has recently been discovered...
...A German invasion of Brazil along this oceanic route would be most hazardous unless the British and American fleets were occupied elsewhere...
...Under these conditions, a German thrust at Brazil is quite feasible...
...The- governments of democratic Europe had no monopoly on overconfident' stupidity...
...Again a few weeks later the Axis powers met to settle a few of the most burning problems in the Balkans...
...It was the territory the Bulgarians had lost to the Romanians, and now it was restored to them...
...Furthermore, parts of Transylvania are left blank, as if they were part of Antarctica...
...But all the more can be said about the disposition of Transylvania...
...Long before the collapse in France the Reich was quietly fortifying the African leftovers of Portugal's once vast empire...
...The American people has a rights and it should insistently demand, to know who is backing the propagandists attempting to control its opinions...
...Nothing nee3lje said about the coffee of i Sao Paulo and the cattie of Rio Grande do Sul...
...With forty-five million inhabitants, Brazil is more populous than Great Britain...
...I was about to say it had lost its Lyings, but that would be inexact...
...The United States steel industry could run at a record-breaking pace on these reserves for considerably more thaa a century...
...the German language schools were suppressed...
...And unless it arms on the home - front, its military preparations will prove useless...
...Schlamm wisely says: "When a bully has a gun, and a dceent man has none, the villain wins not because his philosophy is superior, but because he is armed...
...Despite the 300-year long Anglo-Portuguese alliance, Lisbon's African possessions will probably be swept into the fascist maelstrom...
...Russia could not give up Bessarabia without condemning herself to be shut up in a vast black hole of Calcutta, a tremendously large space without windows, a veritable "dying space...
...Hungary had been demanding Transylvania for twenty-two years, and Bulgaria had been demanding southern Dobrudja for twenty-seven years...
...These are mountainous regions, with a predominantly Romanian population...
...The importance of the first two ramparts is self-evident...
...The Amazon system drains ' two million square miles of forest and jungle with over a thousand different . types of hardwoods...
...Rubber production is being resumed here under United ' States guidance...
...The question is, shall we learn the lesson, or shall we attribute Hitler's victories to some mystical superiority of the slave state over the democratic way of life...
...These advance ramparts are the British Isles, the South Seas area, and the West African coast...
...Meanwhile labor, blind to its own interest, was stubbornly pacifist, and the intellectuals were yapping against "imperialist wars" and in their bankrupt cynicism, walking open-eyed into the totalitarian net, precisely like their American fellows...
...Hungary lives today by the Germans' good-will...
...Even more revealing is the nature of the settlement...
...Evidently they felt the Russians had found the going good and wanted to keep on matching...
...Captain Enrique Miranda Correa, chief of the political security department...
...T9E Balkan peninsula today.is in a most unusual and unexpected position...
...TPHE United States must now defend J* three widely separated advance positions until such time as the nation can arm to the teeth, bring its gigantic military-industrial potential into play, and and strike at the core of totalitarianism...
...In 1937, according to Iberica Press, "more than a thousand industrial and mining engineers, surveyors and representatives of German firms entered Portugal and her African colonies...
...The Balkans might have gone up in flames just the same...
...Fear of this may persuade President Salazar to play ball with the axis...
...We may again hear, perhaps before these lines are published, reiterations of the harmony of interests on the parts of the Axis and Russia...
...The primary reason is this: The three great dictatorship neighbors of the Balkans are neutralizing one another...
...Whent Italy entered the war, Vargas echoed Mai-Bolini with a speech in favor of the vigorous, young nations...
...The new boundaries represent a battle-line...
...The liberals Will yell "reaction" if the little people get busy, and sigh more and more Communist manifestoes to the President demanding protection for totalitarians under the Bill of Rights...
...In addition, there is a fringe of potential island fortresses stretching westward into the South Atlantic, belonging nominally to Spain and Portugal...
...There are 150,000 Japanese in" the Sao Paulo cotton regions and the Amazon Valley...
...This is also shown by the fact that the territories inhabited by Hungarians are shown in a vivid red, as compared with the paler colors of all the other nationalities...
...The visit of Serrano Suner to Berlin indicates that Spain has already joined the axis...
...That map is most interesting and reveals a lot about the new order of the Balkans...
...Hungary demanded Transylvania, taken from her at the end of the first war...
...Fortunately, the United States Government has now stepped into the breach, loaning the Brazilian Government $20,000,000 to develop its own steel industry.This fabulously wealthy country would provide Hitter with many of the raw materials and foodstuffs he needs and, at the Same time, give* him a powerful lever for the conquest of all South America...
...Failure to check Japan's southward expansion would have three disastrous results: eventual reduction of Australia, TsTew Zealand and the Netherlands iEast Indies...
...This means that virtually the entire West African coast from Tangier to the Gold Coast, comprising French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies, is almost in axis hands, except for two British enclaves and puny Liberia...
...It shows the Hungarians, Romanians, Germans, etc...
...Schlamm's (Krjjiiant post mortem on democratic Europe,* 4?hat oo»ht to be placed in the hands of every member j/ftngras and every administrative official in Wash-zjpij But that would be a mistake, "thought really to be placed in the hands of'the ijg back home—the voters who, if America loses jff'Lond war of independence, which is also the rl^TForld War, will do their voting not in free-Sons but in "plebiscites" where, at the point of the *Tj[jJey will exercise the only function of voters in ^jftKtarian state: the function of saying "Yes...
...To quite JlKSchlamm: HEureyean democracy went to pieces because it refused to see in totalitarianism the revolutionary, unhHnt-jjjlfcaval which it actually is...
...For as Mr...
...it is by all odds the most important of the Latin nations...
...By William S. Schlamm...
...The Teutonic and Italian populations constitutes a huge volunteer force which, under Reichswehr leadership, might easily be hammered into a fairly effective army...
...The haste with which the settlement was effected allows of only one interpretation...
...This provision, too, permits of only one interpretation...
...Still more important is that this excess territory curves far to the south, along the crest of the Carpathians, which have very few military passes and even fewer railroads...
...But even without such a demarcation of lines, the peninsula is undergoing a great change...
...Speculation has long been ripe as to the deeper significance of these changes...
...Unless they have the intelligence and the courage to fight for it now, on the ideological front, there is grave danger that they may later, like the little people of France, shed their blood for it in vain...
...so confused or so corrupted that the country will have to be saved over their protests if it is to be saved at all...
...Certain Soviet newspapers, mostly of the provinces, accused Romania of hostile acts...
...The result of all this inertia and confusion was that they got theine, without being able to avoid the other...
...And their fellow-travelers should be severely punished—"that contemptible species of men and women who disguise and hide their real affiliations...
...It really meant that Russia had gone on a robbing expedition of her own and that she had better beware...
...They must destroy democracy or perish themIr-'fe-yttal that Americans shall learn this sjesson before it is too late...
...Schlamm makes some sensible and practicable suggestions concerning tactics on the home front...
...None of them could afford to jeopardize the temporary harmony...
...This was as much.a rebuke to Russia as Hitler could afford under the circumstances...
...This is probably true in view of previous German military activities in the Canary Islands and an earlier military infiltration into Spanish Rio de Oro...
...And this in spite of Stalin's cynical betrayal of France, and the obvious fact that with the powerful German army on one frontier, and the Japanese army on another, he will not dare to make any agreement of which Hitler does not approve, with a distant power which could not possibly give him any effective military aid...
...Access to warm waters" and "Constantinople" were synonymous words to them...
...Mussolini's entire_ foreign policy of the last fifteen years : has been a constantly reiterated assertion of the Balkans' dependence upon his country...
...The European democracies* never learned it To the end they clung to the stupid belief that they could compromise with totalitarianism...
...Bulgaria demanded southern Dobrudja, taken from her at the beginning of the first war...
...Unless the American people make themselves heard in Washington, President Roosevelt will continue not only to tolerate the Communist fellow-travelers but to appoint them to important public offices...
...If Germany had wanted to select the most advantageous frontiers for herself in a war with Russia she could not have made a better selection...
...The totalitarian powers have now stripped off their masks...
...There is the "Lebensraum" of the Germans more than any other region...
...Schlamm points out, unless it arms for attack rather than defense, its efforts will be wasted...
...But certain facts do speak, and the tale they tell points to a lesson...
...Each of them would have been sure to ask too much, and the friendly distribution of plunder might have ended in a vicious scrap...
...and finally, acquisition by Japan' of virtual self-sufficiency in the strategic materials of modern war-, fare...
...IT is curious to recall in retrospect that the Soviets displayed * the greatest interest in parts of the Balkans even at a time when they professed to have abjured all nationalistic aims...
...Hoover are its main propagandists, a«l they have the support not only of Hitler's agents and sympathizers but of many honest isolationists, j...
...Schlamm correctly states...
...To dislodge Germany from a huge, sprawling nation such as Brazil, would be a very difficult task...
...Under these circumstances, the importance of the rumored plan for American acquisition of the British naval base at Freetown, Sierra Leone ii} West Africa becomes obvious...
...that is, none...
...It constitutes at present the only point from which an attack on South America is feasible...
...In their settlement of the Transylvanian issue they guaranteed Romania's present frontiers against all countries...
...And last but not least, we should abandon the soft liberalism which insists upon interpreting the Bill of Rights as guaranteeing to our enemies the right to destroy us...
...It is a collection of lectures the distinguished scholar gave at the Williamstown Institute of Politics two years before...
...A - few weeks later Hitler addressed the Reichstag...
...Assume that a fascist putsch were attempted in BraziL It might be led by disloyal officers in the army, fleet and air force...
...The Carpathians are a strong defense...
...1* chief effect of the pact may be to •tor tile nature of the conflict in which Wmsy shortly expect to find ourselves °H»ged...
...It was ines-eaptUe that this complete lack of understanding should I develop into the ghastly diplomatic shadow-boxing we j flaw witnessed...
...THAT- is the lesson which Americans can draw from the European debacle...
...Commentators in this country were inclined to take the view that Russia had acted in concert with Germany...
...therefore the military struggle against fascism is becoming world-wide...
...He devoted a few words to the case of Russia, although the bulk of his talk was a hot gas raid on England...
...With the turn of the Vargas regime toward the United States, these budding friendships were, of course, aborted...
...It may also refer to the Balkans...
...Schlamm makes clear, he will desperately need the wealth of the Aniericas Then he has completed the destruction of Europe...
...The ambition of the fascist will to power is world-wide...
...It was not for nothing that even the least dynamic Czarist governments were constantly striving to break the "ice blockade" that was choking their empire to death...
...Perhaps they could have agreed on the spoils, but it would have been a risky undertaking...
...The three voracious powers wanted to avoid such a fi^ht by all means...
...Its position is unusual because it is the only region in Europe which is flanked both by Germany and Italy, the two European members of the Axis, and Russia, against which and cm behalf of which the Axis is in operation...
...There is little to be said about southern Dobrudja...
...Transportation difficulties and absence of suitable coke in the vicinity have hindered development, and Itabira has long been a football for Rothschild, Baring and Krupp interests...
...Three years ago, Brazilian Nazi chieftain Hans Henning von Cossel boasted before a Nazi Party congress that "one million Germans in Brazil" were "pledged to Hitler's cause...
...It should force its government to investigate the financial backing of . all such people, and their political affiliations...
...It would be decidedly in Hitler's interest to permit Stalin to appear to be making an alliance with the United States...
...In each case the taker was Romania...
...A comparison of this map with the award of the Axis powers shows that Hungary got more of Transylvania than she would have been entitled to even on the ethnographic basis presented by Count Teleki...
...Contrary to the general belief, the Balkans did not go to war after the rest of Europe had gone up in flames...
...f tAMi-fte," the optimist will answer, "but that'danger I is oyer for us...
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