Thursday, July 15, 2021

Spurious Pretext for Invasion

 "Our cause in Ethiopia is a just one. In a few days it will be laid before the League's counsel. It will be laid before the whole world—proof that the Ethiopians are a barbaric people, sunk in the practice of slavery"

 -- Benito Mussolini; from interview with London Daily Mail (Aug 26, 1935)

Attacking a Peaceful Neighbor

"My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time."
-- Adolf Hitler; from 
The Obersalzberg Speech (Aug. 22, 1939)