A tense silence tugged at the nerves of the vast throng crowded into Berlin's big, barnlike Kroll Opera House one night last week. Behind the splendor of flashing uniforms and shining boots there was a great straining wonder. Only a few hours before, Adolf Hitler had announced the secret summoning of his war Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's...
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