Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They arrived in their native dress, wearing the nobility's turbans (mounted with gold-wrapped ropes made of camel's hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of the 1943 Washington social whirl. Hostesses would soon learn that as Wahhabis ("Puritan" Moslems) the two Princes can neither smoke nor drink...
...Adolf Hitler had a lot to do with that...
...Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...Firstish press needed. The Washington Times-Herald's British-baiting Frank C. Waldrop (whose capital dope is reverently quoted by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News) picked up what appeared to be the ball and ran panting across several vacant lots. Lumping Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler together for firing good generals, Waldrop wrote: ". . . The fundamental question is whether our Army is to be used first for United States purposes or for the purposes of British Empire strategy General Marshall right today is out as Chief of Staff, because he won't further subordinate...
...friend"; how Italian guards had orders to shoot the ex-Duce if anyone tried to free him; how "SS Commandos," despite those orders, whisked off their man "without a scratch"; how grateful Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo's toughest big shots, ex-Party Secretary Roberto Farinacci, who has escaped to Germany...