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I'm Hugh.

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It's the last broadcast hour of the week. And for the past couple of months, say for a week

where we plunged into current affairs, Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College and I,

have been focused on this book, The Gathering Storm, the first of six-volume Churchill history

of World War II that Winston Churchill put out

beginning in 1948, extending through, I think, 1953 or four. Chapter 6, part seven of our series,

is entitled The Darkening Scene, 1934, and it begins with Churchill noting that Hitler was not at all subtle or secretive about his plan, quote,

the first page of Mindcamp contains a sentence,

German Austria must return to the great German motherland.

And that's on page 81 of the gathering storm.

So Dr. Arne, Hitler is being as unsubtle as possible and Great Britain has got its head in the sand.

Yeah. It, you know, Neville Chamberlain wrote, you know, he, about Second Swarquia.

See, when Austria goes into union with Germany, about Czechoslovakia.

See, when Austria goes into union with Germany,

and that was a put-up job, right, they agitated in Germany,

you know, they killed the prime minister,

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