Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another shuffle of its South American representatives, the State Department switched 49-year-old William Douglas Pawley from Peru to Brazil, to fill the spot recently vacated by Adolf Berle Jr. Swashbuckling Bill Pawley* began a fabulous, up-&-down career at 18 by selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...
...Adolf William Marburg...
Hate & Hunger. The city fathers of Tegelen, Holland, considered this spring of 1946, decided that it was not a season for rejoicing; they abolished the annual spring carnival. At Berchtesgaden, a crocus was pushing up through the ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light were weeds of old hatred; in Vienna, where a Jewish soccer team played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes...
...Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf Hitler's rise to power-a rise which Simpl found too ludicrous to be believable...
...which should be accustomed to madmen and murderers, the personality of Adolf Hitler still provokes terrified attention. Last week, an able post-mortem of that personality was published in the New York Times Magazine by Major H. R. Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer who had investigated the Führer's reported death...