Word: anti-nazi
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...Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised as an old man with...
...years, Mindszenty had risen rapidly from parish priest to Prince-Primate. The church knew it was entering a fateful struggle in Hungary. Mindszenty was inexperienced, with little knowledge of the world or of diplomacy. He had, however, two assets that must have recommended him to the Vatican: 1) an anti-Nazi record so clear that the Communists could not besmirch it, and 2) extraordinary strength of character...
...desire such conferences. The Russians know how to do diplomatic business; they know that the way to got things done is not through the agency of the world press. In 1939, when Russia wanted to make a deal with Nazi Germany, the Soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi Germany, the soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi campaign to a conciliatory position, and the subsequent negotiations were all highly secret and ultra-diplomatic. The Russians are adept at international poker. They don't negotiate through the newspapers...
...Military Government's newspaper in Germany, Munich's daily Die Neue Zeitung is supposed to speak with a U.S. accent (TIME, Nov. 29). Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will...
...Pairs of Underwear. Communist newspapers took up the hue & cry, screamed that Mindszenty's reputation as an anti-Nazi was unmerited, that he had been "a notorious anti-Semite." Climax of this farrago was the charge that the Nazis had arrested Mindszenty only because he refused to give up his hoarded "1,500 pairs of underwear...