Word: adolf
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During the Czechoslovak Crisis many Frenchmen were annoyed that Neville Chamberlain, although he flew thrice to Adolf Hitler (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich), did not fly to Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
Points Nos. 1 & 2 were said to be actively urged by Adolf Hitler, who recently sent secret proposals to Paris after a four-hour conference at Berchtesgaden with the retiring French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet, who now goes to Rome. At No. 10 Downing Street it has been accepted for some time that colonial territory must be given Germany, somehow or other, and Paris hopes with London to get, in exchange, pacts intended for "humanizing warfare," together with German and Italian cooperation in measures to remove some of the present restrictions on world trade...
Father to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler's thoughts of Drang nach Osten was Charlemagne, who late in the 8th Century had his eye on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne planned an arterial waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the Rhine and the Danube, thence to the Eastern capital, Constantinople. But when his engineers tried to link up the Rhine and the Danube, rains and mountains stymied them...
Several years ago Adolf Hitler asked the world's greatest otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna, to examine his larynx. Dr. von Neumann had as patients and friends England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alfonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. But he is an orthodox Jew and he turned Hitler down. Last spring, when Hitler entered Austria, Dr. von Neumann was imprisoned and released upon the plea of the Duke of Windsor...
Likely Germans ambitious to work as colonial administrators after Adolf Hitler secures overseas territory for the Reich have been studying for some years in the first two German colonial schools at Rensburg and Witzhausen. Last week another such school was opened at Ladeburg by Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, who is "the Deputy of the Führer for Colonial Affairs...