![]() ![]() He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. Fuhrer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. 2, 1939 Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Fuhrerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. This was - it was not - I mean, I thought that - I didn't know most of this, but I knew enough to see that there was no serious opposition to fascism, and it was, for me and people like me, it was a scandal." ฤก8. from what i gather from the caption on the time cover I mean, in the early 1930s, I remember Fortune magazine, a main business magazine, had an issue with the cover saying something like "The wops are unwopping themselves." These backward dirty Italians are finally learning how to do something right. It gets worse as - this is from memory, it might be slightly wrong, but George Cannon, who was one of the leading post-war planners and very much on the humanist liberal side, he was American Consul in Berlin, I think until mid-1941, I think sending back pretty favorable reports that you shouldn't be too extreme in condemning the Nazis, and Italians, certainly not. Now we have a chance for real peace in the world under the moderate Nazis who have programs that we can work with. This is what destroyed Czechoslovakia, turned it over to Hitler. I mean, after Munich in 1938, Roosevelt's closest associate, Sumner Wells, reported back that it's a tremendous achievement. Hitler was described by the State Department into the late 1930s, 1937, as kind of a moderate standing between extremes of left and right you've heard this many times since - who was protecting the West against the terrible threat of the working class and the Bolsheviks, and a possible revolution which might overturn the core of civilization, meaning capitalist civilization. In fact, if you look back at the records, which are now available, there was really never - what's now called appeasement is a very misleading term. Investment in Italy just shot up after Mussolini took over, same after Hitler took over. Roosevelt called him "that admirable Italian gentleman." As late as 1939, he was saying that fascism in Italy was an experiment that was worthwhile and had to be carried out, and distorted later by its association with Hitler, but - in fact, the U.S. Mussolini was quite popular in the United States over a broad spectrum, including labor. It was just one of the versions of this form of social and economic organization that was spreading over the world with some hideous parts like Hitler and some parts like Italy, which were actually approved. The Life and Times of Noam Chomsky: A Brief History of America's Leading Dissident transcript: "In fact, the New Deal was called fascist in those days by many people without, you know, without any particular program. The German people did not stand up to Hitler because their media betrayed them, just as the American media is betraying the American people by willingly, voluntarily, even proudly, abandoning its traditional role as watchdog against government abuse." Tyrants become obvious only when looking back, after what they have done becomes known. The lesson from these facts is that it isn't easy to spot a genocidal tyrant when you live with one, especially one whom the press supports and promotes. Both of these men, and many others also celebrated by the media, were unimaginable monsters. Stalin was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year for 19. "As I mentioned above, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938. ![]()
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