INTERNATIONAL: Windows Opened

Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 there have been only a few turning points in the history of Europe. There was the March on Rome in 1922 which founded the first of many modern Fascist States (see p. 24). Another epochal moment was Stalin's launching in 1928 of the first Five-Year Plan. Adolf Hitler then began striking from Germany, one by one, the shackles of Versailles, and last week came the mighty moment when his chain-bursting finally carried Nazi expansion well out beyond the borders of Germany, sent it...

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