Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was widely and correctly interpreted as a crack at Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, most powerful conservative leader in Japan but a notorious conference-holder. When the speech was printed in pamphlets for distribution, the Home Ministry promptly seized them...
...problems that Japan faced last week had brought the conflict between conservatives and the go-ahead group to the point of crisis. Between the hotheads of the Army and the conservatives represented by Baron Hiranuma and Masatsune Ogura, Yosuke Matsuoka was steering a perilous course, veering toward the activists, on whom he has always counted for support...
...also sounded good to Herr Hitler, whose world-swallowing ideas are formulated by retired Major General Professor Karl Haushofer, a contemporary and fellow ideologist of Herr Doktors Rohrbach and Naumann. In Syria today is a direct human link between the Drang dreams of Hitler and Hohenzollern. He is Baron Max von Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq...
Excavation of cubistic-faced gods was not all little Baron Max was up to during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on Bedouins, Baron von Oppenheim still loves to don their dress and disappear among them for long periods...
...Baron is now getting his chance to work in the Middle East. He is said recently to have been invaluable to Fritz Grobba, roving Nazi diplomat, in stirring up trouble among the Iraqi. Constantly expressing his Hitler loyalty, Baron von Oppenheim raises his hand and heils even when he is talking on the telephone alone in his room. It happens that the little Baron Max is a Jew whom the Führer raised to Honorary Aryan status...