hitleri kõne poola asjus ja muud põnevat

Oo, Times lubab osasid oma vanu numbreid tasuta lapata, kõigi aastakäikude lugemiseks peab rahakotti letti lööma. Hitleri kõne tuleb kuidagi kahtlaselt tuttav ette (ja loomulikult on paha Lääs kõiges süüdi). Ainult pärisnimed ära vahetada ja kõlbab ilusasti 21. sajandil kasutamiseks.
I informed the Polish Ambassador three weeks ago that if Poland continued to send to Danzig notes in the form of ultimatums, if Poland continued its methods of oppression against the Germans, and if on the Polish side an end was not put to Customs measures destined to ruin Danzig's trade, then the Reich could not remain inactive. I left no doubt that people who wanted to compare the Germany of today with the former Germany would be deceiving themselves. An attempt was made to justify the oppression of the Germans by claiming that they had committed acts of provocation. I do not know in what these provocations on the part of women and children consist, if they themselves are maltreated, in some cases killed. One thing I do know - that no great Power can with honour long stand by passively and watch such events.
[...]The other European States understand in part our attitude. I should like here above all to thank Italy, which throughout has supported us, but you will understand that for the carrying on of this struggle we do not intend to appeal to foreign help. We will carry out this task ourselves. The neutral States have assured us of their neutrality, just as we had already guaranteed it to them.

Varasematest lehtedest saab näiteks lugeda, et Times elas Müncheni konverentsi aegu Chamberlainile täiega kaasa, nii et "rahu meie ajal" läks ka meediale hästi kaubaks. Lehelt võib ka lugeda 1842. aasta artikleid Afganistani sõjast ja palju muud põnevat. Soovitan soojalt tutvuda.
Siin lõik Timesi juhtkirjast pärast Müncheni konverentsi. Jällegi, kopipeist, pärisnimed ära vahetada ja kõlbab tänases Timesis avaldamiseks:
Neither Germans nor Italians, neither Frenchmen nor Englishmen, have quite been able to believe that there could be need of war to regulate the quarrel between Sudetens and Czechs. Granted that behind it is a real moral issue, which within the earliest possible period must be settled once for all, the margin of difference over the procedure proposed for the solution of the immediate problem had lately become so narrow that to start a world-wide conflict about it would be both criminal and grotesque.
[...]The settlements reached by peaceful procedure - even though at present pressure may play a large part in them - have a better chance of long life; and in this respect also the deliberations of Munich, following upon the heroic exertions of MR. CHAMBERLAIN, may mark the utmost so far achieved of a change of frontiers brought about without actual violence, if not indeed without the fear of violence. It seems that the project round which the discussion has ranged is the occupation by German troops of a strictly limited stretch of Czechoslovak territory on October 1 - tomorrow - the day prescribed by HERR HITLER.