Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
...three Laborites and three Conservatives in the innermost council of the British Empire. But the Conservative Party controls the bulk of Britain's wealth and a two-thirds Parliamentary majority (frozen while the war lasts). So the Conservative Prime Minister upped his War Cabinet to eight, added Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood and Sir John Anderson. This brought the standing of Britain's controlling body to three Laborites, five Conservatives...
...Luceditors, has been accused of beating the tom-tom loud and long for the war-dance of the interventionists. Actually the film's account of our entrance into World War I is remarkably accurate and unimpassioned, considering Yaleman Luce's personal and impassioned declaration of war on Chancellor Hitler. As a document of social history, the picture can be interpreted as a bugle call for War, Glory, and Unity or as the tragedy of a deluded and naive nation which sacrificed its life-blood to create the Treaty of Versailles and the Rome-Berlin Axis...
...challenge given, a challenge accepted. Two days later Chancellor Hitler made good his boast, Prime Minister Churchill his defiance. The British were sure they could stand it not only because their nerves were good, but because they knew that their Air Force was still intact, that man-for-man and ship-for-ship it was better than the Luftwaffe, and that behind the still outnumbered R. A. F. was a broadening stream of new equipment which, they fervently hoped, might eventually drive German planes from their skies. In aircraft production more than in any other effort of their...
Hard-eyed, scowling, exiled Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria and leader of the fascist Heimwehr, after many an unsuccessful attempt to raise a pro-Ally Austrian legion, joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Air Force to fight against his onetime friends, the Nazis...