Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victory of Springtime. A U.S. correspondent describes how De Lattre held briefings: "He would stride up & down, describing every move with his delicate hands, drawing himself up on tiptoe, clenching his fists and shivering or mopping his brow to express cold or heat." He was moody. An American who worked with him says: "Frequently a U.S. officer visiting De Lattre would find him hunched over his desk, holding his head in his hands. The natural reaction of the American would be: 'The man's crazy...
Confidence & Conviction. Berlin's Western Military Government officials, who first dubbed Hildebrandt a "madman and fanatic," now call him "one of the few people around here who really does something." Communists curse the Kampfgruppe as an "Anglo-American espionage center," occasionally send their agents to try to gain Hildebrandt's confidence...
Matsumoto: "We don't want to imitate Russia. We want national independence. This cannot be obtained without Communism, because American capitalists are colonizing Japan, and we would end this...
Tanaka: "As Premier Yoshida has said, 'No country with brains stays a colony; America was a colony once.' Many things are now decided by the American occupation authorities, but that is the price of defeat. America is helping...
Matsumoto (changing the subject): "Germans recently voted Bismarck the greatest man in history. That shows Germany under American occupation is far from being democratized...