[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Meeting at Border – 2-4*
The International Situation – 4
Both Sides Attack – 5-6**
Four Warships Hit, Nazi Fliers Assert – 6-7
Italy’s Role in War Seen as Main Issue – 8

* One opinion is that if Signor Mussolini has gone to see Herr Hitler, it means that he sees the possibility of another mediation for peace. . . .There are others, however, who take the opposite view. They think that the Mussolini-Hitler meeting is connected with a far-reaching German-sponsored plan to create a powerful bloc, comprising Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan. The purpose of this bloc, they say, is to prevent the spreading of the war to fronts other than the West.

Compare this speculation of “diplomatic circles” with Shirer’s account of the meeting in the excerpt above.

** One British bomber dived 6,000
feet almost to the water level, be-
teen German planes carried out the
greatest raid of the war against
British soil last evening . . .

Something’s missing there. For once it isn’t Homer’s fault.