Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking elsewhere throughout the world, Comrade Molotov called President Roosevelt's recent note to Adolf Hitler asking for a ten-year peace a "proposal permeated with a peace-loving spirit." The recently signed German-Italian treaty he called an "offensive alliance." He warned Japan to stop "provocative violations of the frontiers of the U. S. S. R. and the Mongolian People's Republic" in the Far East. As for China, Russia would always support "nations which have become victims of aggression and are fighting for the independence of their countries...
...modest career of German Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig...
...Worried musical observers report that Adolf Hitler is forsaking Wagner for such tuneful fluffiness as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...clue to Nazi restraint was found in the return to Danzig, after more than two months absence, of League of Nations High Commissioner, Professor Karl J. Burckhardt, whom Adolf Hitler recently described as "a man of extraordinary tact." Official explanation of the Commissioner's return was that he was to undertake a survey of the Danzig situation for the League. The Poles greeted his arrival as a reassertion of League authority. Nazi newspapers, cued by suggestions in the French and British press that "Danzig is not worth a war," thought they knew better, and hailed tactful Professor Burckhardt...
...Brain Trust is Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. Short, dapper, arrogant, well-heeled Berle is a child prodigy who still likes to head the class. He is all at once: 1) analyst-extraordinary of corporate finance (The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 1932), 2) intimate of New York Muckraker Samuel Seabury who is backer of Republican Tom Dewey, 3) adviser to Franklin Roosevelt (whom he calls "Caesar" to his face), on everything from railroads to Munich...