GERMANY: Best Mouths

On May 21, 1935 in one of his most deeply moving peace overtures to France, Orator Adolf Hitler cried: "The German Government sees in the respecting of the demilitarized [Rhineland] zone a contribution to the pacification of Europe!"

Deeply moving too were Orator Hitler's words last week, he having in the meantime ruptured the treaty in question and remilitarized the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). "Natural rights stand above the paragraphs of treaties," the Realmleader told an election throng of 20,000 at Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people,...

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