Word: danzig
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...left in Memel and Danzig...
...Hermann Rauschning, onetime President of the Danzig Senate, a German who renounced the Nazis in 1934, took refuge in Poland. Since then he has fled in turn to Switzerland, France and Britain...
...Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the 19th Century there was a great influx of Poles and Germans-particularly from Danzig...
Three weeks ago a fanatically patriotic young Frenchman, Paul Collette, put the pistol to two of France's German-serving arch-collaborationists, onetime Premier Pierre Laval and Editor Marcel ("Why Die for Danzig?") Déat of L'Oeuvre (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat, shot in the throat and belly, was nonetheless able to write an editorial, which he facetiously titled Impressions of an Assassinated Man, saying that his shooting was "troublesome" because his "last articles came near to being posthumous...
...arable land," the stirrings of an ancient paganism. An authority on sacred music, he wrote voluminously about it. He also wrote, never published, a monumental history of the end of the Prussian order (since confiscated by the Gestapo), dabbled in local agrarian politics, became president of the Danzig Senate, pondered upon that passage in the writings of the late great Austrian poet, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which describes the growing revolt against Europe's arid intellectualism: "The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a Conservative Revolution, on such a scale as the history of Europe...