Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest game behind Europe's political scenes today is being played by bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
Last week Rumania, having recently been sewed up by Britain and France with offers to buy her oil at good prices, abruptly broke off the flirtation with Germany which last year carried King Carol almost into Adolf Hitler's camp, and gave Rumania briefly a violently Jew-baiting pro-Nazi cabinet...
...year-old Japanese invasion of China began, Japan has resented the fact that the seasoned veteran, General von Falkenhausen, German chief of staff of the Turkish Armies during the World War, was advising the stubborn if not wholly successful Chinese military strategists. Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang...
...simultaneously. Two outdoor anti-Fascist meetings drew 400 persons until broken up by police fearing a clash between the two groups. But at Maple Leaf Gardens, the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy attracted 10,000, heard former U. S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd describe Germany under Adolf Hitler...
...Thrice in the week the President greeted Swedish royalty. His welcome to Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, 55-year-old heir of 80-year-old King Gustaf V. took place in a sick room at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Three days before the President had stopped in heavy rain at Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third...