Word: anti-nazi
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...result of human weakness." With these last words to his spiritual principality, the cardinal (Alec Guinness) submits to arrest by the secret police. He is charged with treason and remanded for interrogation to a brilliant political fanatic, a doctor (Jack Hawkins) with whom he had worked in the anti-Nazi resistance during World...
...himself to the West German police last week, John was held in close custody, but Correspondent Bonde-Henriksen had a world scoop. Otto John's story, according to Bonde-Henriksen, was that he had visited Wowo that night to "get some support for a widow of an executed anti-Nazi underground leader," and had been persuaded to go to his other flat in West Berlin ... "I woke up two days later in Karlshorst [Russian army headquarters]. A female doctor was sitting at my bedside and ... I got one injection and later on another, and I didn't feel...
Died. Johannes Cardinal de Jong, 69, Archbishop of Utrecht, courageous anti-Nazi during World War II as chief Catholic prelate in The Netherlands, author of the classic Handbook of Church History; after long illness; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ailing on the date of the Consistory in 1946 when he was to have been elevated to cardinal, Archbishop de Jong received the red hat of office from Pope Pius XII in a special ceremony at Pope Pius' summer residence eight months later, was the first resident cardinal in The Netherlands since the Reformation...
...ancient planes begged, bor rowed or bought from anywhere and everywhere, some so inadequate that bombs were dropped by hand through toilet holes and gunners defended themselves by firing pistols at antiaircraft fire. The planes were flown by a motley crew of hired mercenaries, anarchists, Communists and dedicated idealists (anti-Nazi Germans, anti-Fascist Italians, English and French). Malraux himself flew 65 missions, crashed twice...
...pair of murals painted in the museum transept during this period aroused a new furor when their artist, Jacob Rubenstein, was accused of developing his commissioned themes into anti-Nazi propaganda. One of the pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group of slaves, while the other depicts an attack by a party of modernly equipped warriors upon an enemy using shields and spears. The museum, however, still officially denies any direct analogy to the third Reich...