The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...

Only then did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to intervene, bringing in French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Italy's Benito Mussolini ... 45-minute speech to Parliament ...

Chamberlain’s belief that Hitler had no more sinister ambition than annexing the Sudetenland was shattered when German troops ...

Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: ...

With the rise of the fascist dictatorships of Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany ... and Secretary of State Cordell Hull to revise the Neutrality Act in 1939. During his 1940 ...

The first is from a brief news report on 17 June 1935 quoting McDonald as using the term “racism” in relation to Adolf Hitler’s “contagious” anti-Jewish doctrines in a speech to the ... Fascist ...

The political biopic is recast as a fever dream in this whirlwind Italian drama, which turns the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s into a nightmarish study of craven ...

A box of tissues and two glasses of water sit on his desk, among other items, as he continues his marathon speech. The late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, a Democrat-turned-Republican ...