The Archives

1938

 In the wake of Adolph Hitler’s three-hour long speech in Czechoslovakia on February 20 in which he pledged to protect speculated “Theoretically—in the event of Nazi aggression in Czecholosvakiathe next step would be up to France. That country must either come to the rescue, throwing down the steel gauntlet before Germany and Italy...or see her Central European alliances ruined beyond repair.” The article’s headline proved prescient: “Hitler Poses as Europe’s Master, Foreshadows a Greater Reich.”