Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austrians used to joke affectionately about their late, great, little Engelbert Dollfuss, saying that when he was worried he used to spend all night pacing up & down under his bed. If the stouthearted little Chancellor, murdered eleven years ago by the Nazis, had been alive last week, he would have paced up & down all night and every night...
...nothing was published about it. Yet it was this group in the Free Germany Committee that was the key to Russia's future intentions in Germany. It was Wilhelm Pieck, not Bismarck's great-grandson, or Field Marshal von Paulus, who might realize in reverse the Iron Chancellor's dream of a strong Russian-German alliance. Until Russia disavowed Pieck and his committee, it could be assumed that the Kremlin had a plan for them...
...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...
...driven the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister [Mrs. Clement Attlee] out to die in the snow, or the Minister of Labor [Ernest Beyin] had kept the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden] in exile for a great many years, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson] had shot at and wounded the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] or the head of one or the other of the spending departments - if we who sit here together had all backbitten and double-crossed each other while pretending to work together, if we had all put our own group...
...industrial Manchester and Yorkshire, William Temple found ample occasion to raise his voice against social and economic injustice. He once horrified the Chancellor of the Exchequer by suggesting that a budget surplus should be given to the unemployed rather than used to reduce taxes. Ruddy, fat-cheeked, jolly Dr. Temple laughed easily and loud* but he was in deadly earnest about social reforms...