Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baron Gabor Kemeny, foreign minister in the Hungarian government which overthrew the Horthy regime and handed Hungary over to the Germans, was caught in a roundup of Nazi agents...
...deter him from sanctifying the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki (now Premier), were denounced...
Washington has been less forthright. The last Tokyo Cabinet shake-up brought into office a group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...
...Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs, 63, bespectacled aristocrat, general staffer in World War I, Nazi commander in the Balkans in World War II. Last week the Yugoslav Government requested his extradition as a war criminal...
Grey, patrician Charles Wilson, Baron Moran, President of the Royal College of Physicians, is well qualified for this inquiry. Winner of the Military Cross as a medical officer of the Royal Fusiliers in World War I, he notes that "the Prime Minister . . . has taken me where I might learn from those who are doing the fighting" in World War II. The Anatomy of Courage, recently published in London, is composed largely of a series of sketches from life, mostly in World War I. ¶ A malingering old colonel once came to Moran pleading dysentery ("I'm afraid...