Word: anti-german
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...chaser. In the Sofia cafe last week the Minister felt reminiscent and asked the band to play Tipperary. It did so, and many people sang with the Minister. But there were also hisses, and a sabre-scarred German in civilian clothes protested to the Minister that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked...
Moving daily further from the fire brands of the Reunited Nationalists, General Hertzog first declared openly against Germany, then in November left the party flat, taking many supporters, mostly oldsters, with him. Last week those supporters formed the Afrikaner Party, to follow Hertzog's anti-German foreign policy...
...will place the name of Switzerland, which for months has allowed air violations by enemy aircraft, side by side with that of our detested enemy. The fate of Greece and Turkey already is sealed, and so is the fate of the little mercantile, intellectually dull, anti-Italian and anti-German Swiss...
Just what France was expected to do in return was not immediately apparent. It was anybody's guess. Fact is, the majority of the French people are anti-German, anti-British, pro-French, utterly war-sick. An attempt on the part of the Vichy Government to rouse them to warfare against their former ally would be suicidal. Attempted cession of the fleet to Germany would as likely as not result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British...
...that the rights and liberties enjoyed by our democracy are protected." George Norris rose in the Senate to recall World War I raids, when "hundreds of persons entirely innocent were arrested, shackled and handcuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them." Many could recall when anti-German feeling ran so high that it was hazardous to say "Auf Wiedersehen" on the street, when German opera singers were howled down, the Boston Symphony's German Conductor Dr. Karl Muck was interned, and the father of Senator La Follette was burned in effigy...