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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 23, only nine days before Adolf Hitler ordered his Army to invade Poland, Leopold and Wilhelmina, joined by the heads of the three Scandinavian States and Finland and Luxembourg, had offered their "good offices" in mediating Europe's crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Considerable consternation was thrown into the hearts of Crimson adherents when it was also rumored that some of the Eli men had followed in the steps of Adolf Hitler and have vowed not to change their clothing until victory is their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIS VOW TO LIVE ON ROOF TILL YALE LEAVES DOGHOUSE | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Manners | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston Churchill tonight blasted talk of peace and mediation in the European war with a blunt announcement that the Allies will fight until "that cornered maniac," Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi regime are crushed and destroyed...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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