Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli Parliament assembled last week for a humdrum budget debate. Then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion rose and, in a voice breaking with emotion, said: "I have to inform the Knesset that one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the 'final solution' of the Jewish question-that is, the extermination of 6,000.000 of the Jews of Europe-is under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel...
From Buenos Aires, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti last week supplied the answer: "The Israelis found Adolf Eich mann in Argentina. He arrived in this country in 1952 from Spain. He was traveling with an Italian Red Cross document obtained through the Vatican's D.P.-relief department, which qualified him as a displaced person. The document was in the name of Krumey. one of Eichmann's assistant exterminators who was rearrested in West Germany following Ben-Gurion's announcement...
Only minutes after Charles de Gaulle opened the meeting, Khrushchev, in flat, unemotional tones, began to read off perhaps the most intemperate pronouncement the world had heard from a major statesman since Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker. He denounced the U-2 flight as "aggressive . . . treacherous . . . incompatible with the elementary requirements of the maintenance of normal relations between states in times of peace . . ." He rattled his rockets ("The Soviet government reserves the right in all such instances to take the necessary retaliatory measures against those who shall violate the U.S.S.R.'s national sovereignty") and then...
...month. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd eloquently restated the arguments that Western leaders have been using for a decade past to justify German rearmament. West Germany today, said Lloyd, is a sworn ally of the West, incapable of the diplomatic and military adventurism of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler. Last week, the misgivings his speech was designed to mollify broke out anew when Germany's allies learned that brash, beefy West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss had been negotiating a sub rosa military agreement with Franco Spain...
...members, Betancourt traveled and talked at length and at leisure with the democrats of the hemisphere: Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23, 1958), President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (under Franklin Roosevelt) Adolf A. Berle Jr. He lingered over garlicky meals in modest Manhattan restaurants, analyzed what had gone wrong. After nine years of wandering and pondering, he decided that A.D. had made "psychological errors. There was a certain arrogance, a certain intolerance with minorities. Some say we tried to do too much...