Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will agree to send troops to pursue the purposes which the American troops are supposed to seek in Lebanon." What was the U.S. doing but resorting to Hitler's "big lie"? Retorted the U.S.'s Lodge acidly: "I must defer to Mr. Sobolev in the knowledge of Adolf Hitler, because his government was once .an ally of Adolf Hitler...
...Says Adolf Berle: "Puerto Rico has independence in everything except economics, defense and foreign relations-and these three are international by hypothesis."* Moreover, the commonwealth concept is free to evolve, perhaps in the line of further shucking off of federal laws, or unlinking courts from the U.S. system. President Eisenhower long ago promised to recommend that Congress give Puerto Rico independence any time the islanders vote for it. Moscoso says Puerto Ricans sense their freedom because they "are in a room with the doors open...
With the help of hindsight, successful Dictator Francisco Franco probed the failure of unsuccessful Dictator Adolf Hitler: "Hitler was an affected man. He lacked naturalness. Hitler had the soul of a gambler, and furthermore, he totally lacked knowledge of the psychology of peoples. He never understood anything about the soul of the English. He had not prepared, either completely or logically, his war. Germany had been carefully prepared, but only for a short war-not a long...
Helping some 3,000,000 Minnesotans celebrate their statehood centennial last week were Norway's comely Princess Astrid, daughter of King Olav V, and Sweden's Prince Bertil, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Earlier, the royal junketeers, who looked none the worse for the four-day hullabaloo, had found time for New York shopping and lunch in Washington with President Eisenhower and Mamie. But Bertil, who arrived in the U.S. two days earlier than Astrid, had one regret: no time for golf...
Monstrous Proposition. The time came when the most monstrous proposition in history was offered to Joel Brand. On April 25, 1944, Brand was taken before an SS lieutenant general called Adolf Eichmann. who told him: "I am prepared to sell you one million Jews. Blood for money: money for blood. You can take them from any country you like, where-ever you can find them. Whom do you want to save? Men who beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell me." Brand sat down...