Word: expropriationism
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Last week the Russian-sponsored Berlin Municipal Council announced, among other "economic reforms," a new "rent tax." The tax was virtually equivalent to an expropriation of Berlin landlords.
The Unraveling. One of Europe's greatest mass migrations was at its height. The complex racial pattern that Nazi expropriation, exile, imprisonment and slavery had woven was fast unraveling. The Germans had taken years to create the fabric. The western Allies and Russia had largely demolished it in two...
Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks...
"Bolshevism," Bolsheviks liked to brag, "has peopled half the jails of Europe with philosophers." In almost no time Stalin became one of these philosophers. His first arrests were for organizing illegal strikes and Marxist groups. Later he was jailed on more colorful charges. When Lenin split the Russian Social Democratic...
Such a program will probably be more practicable for Belgium than for most of Europe. Since the day the Nazis immured him in Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and...