Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov frankly expressed his doubts about the sincerity of the British Government's desire to stop Adolf Hitler on all fronts. Last week, from the lips of highly placed British statesmen themselves, he had plenty of evidence to support these doubts...
...Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler on the trouble he was having with stubborn, noncooperative Czechs...
...Soldier Adolf Hitler traveled by plane, for the first time in more than a year, to address 250,000 War veterans at Kassel. He assured his former comrades that they had waged in 1914-18 a valiant war, only to be betrayed at Versailles by a spineless Government. To the Führer the World War was caused by British and French ambitions to destroy Germany, "the same objectives that animate the encirclement politicians of today." But Germany, he added, will never be sold down the river again, for "I have seen to it that anyone who has anything...
Three years ago Dorothy Thompson had won some fame as a foreign correspondent, most of it confined to her professional colleagues. Her book on Hitler was best known for its flat statement that he would never come to power ("Oh, Adolf! Adolf! You will be out of luck"), and her book on Russia was best known as the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's renowned brawl with Theodore Dreiser, whom he accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit...