Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
Blonde, brassy the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation...
Long a friend of Adolf Hitler, troublesome Unity recently announced she would become a naturalized German citizen. She was hoarse-voiced cheering the Führer's entry to Vienna. She and her blonde, pro-German elder sister, the former Mrs. Bryan W. Guinness, few months ago were toasted by Field Marshal Goring as "with Frau Goring the most perfect Aryan women I have ever seen...
Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
Last week, in Bucharest, this champion hater faced a treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...