Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pearl Harbor, like all Americans working in Germany, Herbert John Burgman of Hokah, Minn, got a chance to return home. But in 20 years of clerking at the American Embassy in Berlin, Herbert Burgman had acquired a German education, a German wife, a son-and an unbounded admiration for Adolf Hitler. He went to work for the Nazis, spouted radio propaganda at the U.S. on the program called "station D-E-B-U-N-K." He blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt and "his Jewish and Communistic pals" for World War II, promised that things would be better when he himself...
George N. Craig, National Commander of the American Legion, hotly demanded that the U.S. send troops to rescue Ward and his companions if the Chinese Communists do not release him. The remedy involved not only risking Ward's life, but war. This week Dean Acheson appealed to 30 nations, including Russia, to protest the conduct of the Chinese Communists...
...triumphant wedding music boomed out, hordes of twittering women converged on the entrance and television crews flicked on their lights. "I hate to go out there and face that mess," said the new Mrs. Barkley. "That's no mess, my dear," boomed the Veep. "That's the American people...
...American people showered them with rice, pinned them against the canopy in defiance of police lines, finally allowed them to get to their car. An elderly woman darted under the arm of a policeman and rapped peremptorily on the rear window. "All I want to do is shake hands with him," she told the cop defiantly. (The Veep rolled down a window and obliged.) Other women stormed into the church and briskly stripped the chancel of every last chrysanthemum, camellia and fern...
...which the Chinese contemptuously called a "penguin's nest" has become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...