[Homer_J_Simpson]

"Frank Tichenor of New York, publisher of Aero Digest, nominated Adolf Hitler today to receive the Collier trophy for the “greatest aviation achievement in America: in 1938."

Somehow this made me think that someone should nominate Zero at the NRA convention for encouraging people to buy guns and ammo.

Good parallel. I didn't catch the irony in that filler when I posted it. I wonder if the folks at the NRA are capable of that kind of wit.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The following refers to Hitler’s speech of April 28 during which he recited the names of the nations which had replied to his inquiry as to whether they felt threatened by Germany. He had not received an answer from Poland at that time.

Retiring for the summer to his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden, Hitler did not publicly respond to the Polish answer to him which was given on May 5 in a speech by Colonel Beck to Parliament and in an official government memorandum presented to Germany on that date. The Polish statement and Beck’s speech constituted a dignified, conciliatory but also firm reply.

It is clear [it said] that negotiations, in which one State formulates demands and the other is obliged to accept those demands unaltered, are not negotiations.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich