Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself to the democracies whom every one now knows Franklin Roosevelt proposes to save if necessary. He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their own selfish interests. "It is not surprising," rumbled the idol of Idaho, "that the majority of the House did not make any distinction between dictators and democracies but pursued the old system of considering...
Hull's assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have heard him right), saying: "Hitler, you son-of-a-bitch," and "Mussolini, damn you!" before whanging them into Coventry...
...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...nominally a Conservative, he has often played for a time on other political sides if he thought the game suited him that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since Adolf Hitler became Führer in 1933 Mr. Churchill has been preaching rearmament. He was one of the first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop...
...sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke up in sharp, open opposition. Eight months after his arrest, he was tried, on such charges as "making agitatory addresses," found guilty, given a suspended sentence. But Adolf Hitler had said: "It is Niemoller or I." The pastor was rearrested, put in Sachsenhausen concentration camp...