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Hitler Gives Word – 2-4
Bulletins on Europe’s Conflict – 6
Free City is Seized – 7-8
Conscription Age Set at 17 in Russia – 9
Hostilities Begun – 10
British Mobilizing – 11
Hitler Tells the Reichstag ‘Bomb Will Be Met by Bomb’ – 12-13
British Children Taken From Cities – 14-16
Daladier Summons Cabinet to Confer – 17-18
U. S. Voters Favor Poland in Survey – 19
‘Peewee Hitler’ Found in America – 20
21 Arriving on the American Clipper Tell Of Feverish Preparations for War Abroad – 21
Slovakia Demands Poles Return Land – 21
Hitler To His Army (Editorials) - 22

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
Gleiwitz incident

[henkster]

“At 10:30 a.m. on September 1 the French cabinet met briefly to consider the country’s response to Hitler’s aggression. It was decided to decree general mobilization, to convoke Parliament for the next day and to ask it to vote the necessary credits to wage war. This in the view of the majority, though not of Monzie, would get around asking Parliament for a declaration of war. The Constitution of 1875 stipulated that the President of the Republic could not declare war without the prior assent of the two chambers. But constitutional authorities had held that if they voted war credits that could be considered an “assent.” That was what Daladier proposed to do. He shrank back from asking for an outright declaration of war.”

William Shirer, “The Collapse of the Third Republic” p. 490.

What a half-assed way to enter a war! You can clearly see from this response, as if we didn’t need any more evidence, that France was not going to go “all-in” for this war.

In the coming months and through June of next year, as Homer posts excerpts from “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” I will post from his equally great work on the Fall of France “The Collapse of the Third Republic” along with Ernest May’s “Strange Victory.”

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