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1933:     GERMANY: Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick, using the Enabling Act, dissolve the parliaments of all states except Prussia. 

 

1936:     GERMANY: Germany offers a 19-point peace plan for political problems to be followed by conferences on disarmament and economic problems. The main points were: Assurance on troop movement in the Rhineland, the 25-year nonaggression pacts, an air pact, agreement for cultural disarmament, national plebiscites to ratify the agreement, German willingness to reenter the League of Nations, negotiations on colonial equality of rights, and separation of the Covenant from the Versailles treaty.

March 31st, 1939 (FRIDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addresses Parliament, declaring support of Poland with military assistance in case any action was threatened by Germany. He also speaks for France. The news of Chamberlain's guarantee throws Hitler into a rage. 
 

The first production Miles Master advanced trainer come off the production line at Miles Aircraft of Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. (22)

GERMANY: Germany and Spain conclude a Treaty of Friendship. 

POLAND:  Britain and France sign an agreement with Poland guaranteeing its borders against aggression. These "unconditional" guarantees only pertain to Poland's western border with Germany, not its frontiers with the Soviet Union.  (Jack McKillop and Michael Ballard)
 

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