Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frolic" party was just that last Saturday night. We've yet to see the "Last Will and Testament of Adolf Hitler" which was seemingly lost in the rush, but Major Fay says it will be forthcoming at some future date. By the way, that's a plug for another party; it has been suggested too, that it be given free with the profits from this...
...Bulgaria's bald, 49-year-old King Boris III journeyed last week to Adolf Hitler's general headquarters. Hitler reportedly demanded: 1) six Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness...
...Thomas became worldwide. He guest-conducted Toscanini's New York Philharmonic, appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Opera. At the invitation of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, he took his London Philharmonic to Germany, also conducted the Berlin Opera. Feted by leading Nazis, he met Adolf Hitler, who assured him that his favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later, ''that he was afraid it might...
Joseph Stalin said five weeks ago that the Russians had killed 4,000,000 Germans. Adolf Hitler last fortnight put his dead at 542,000. What was the truth? Citizens of the democracies could still read and listen to what both sides said, and draw their own conclusions. One conclusion has been that you cannot always trust army communiqués-even from your own army...
Died. Hans Adolf von Moltke, 58, grandnephew of Wilhelm I's Chief of Staff, German Ambassador to Spain since Jan. 1; of undisclosed causes; in Madrid. He had recently undergone surgery for an ulcerated appendix. A Foreign Office veteran of pre-World War I vintage, he was Ambassador to Poland from 1931 until the German invasion...