Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Was Wrong? Like a bridge player down two on a grand slam, doubled and redoubled, Adolf Hitler was obliged to second-guess the play of his hand, and make the best of his mistakes...
...mistakes were not of detail. They were, rather, mistakes of conception. Adolf Hitler had played his cards as well as ever; the disaster was in the size...
When, contrary to plan, winter found the Germans deep in Russia, Adolf Hitler vetoed the plea of his generals that a winter line be established, and tried twice to keep the offensive. But German aerial operations over Russia dwindled to the merest trickle. Tanks and trucks, oil frozen, bogged in the deep snow and were abandoned in wholesale lots...
...democracies he put up with it-perhaps not too painfully. Speech was now so free that the Parliament was delaying the transport bill with interminable debate. Individual opinions were so tolerated that swastikas might be seen on many walls, and in the bazaar hawkers sold portraits of Adolf Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably describe Hitler as a Mohammedan...
Germany's foxy Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen last week found a sly way of increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey...