Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria the situation was different last week, for the reason that the Austrian police and gendarmerie were left in charge of Chancellor Schuschnigg's devoted follower, Secretary of State for Public Security Dr. Michael Skubl. Moreover, under Austrian law the only political party which is legal is the Fatherland Front of Kurt von Schuschnigg. The Austrian Nazi Party was not legalized, but Austrian Nazis were told they might join the Fatherland Front whose official leader is Schuschnigg, whose vice-leader, Guido Zernatto, one of the Chancellor's most devoted followers, was given Cabinet rank as Minister Without Portfolio...
...Berlin, jittery with continued crisis, opened last week the sedition trial of Rev. Martin Niembller, who during the War served Kaiser Wilhelm II as one of the most indomitable, hellraising U-boat commanders ever to spread high-powered "frightfulness" for the Fatherland...
...defense arguments he had prepared. On the first two days 42 witnesses were called, and reputedly in Berlin there are almost an indefinite number of pious Germans, wealthy folk or members of the fighting services, ready to testify that Martin Niemoller is no traitor but a hero of the Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused the German Supreme Court to acquit the famed Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff of complicity in the Reichstag fire (TIME, March 6, 1933, et seq.), send...
...second largest political group, the National Peasant Party of famed Dr. Julius Maniu, was not represented. In the windy way of dictators, Carol II proclaimed: "In these stern times only heroic measures can save Rumania. ... I am determined to save it by the single thought of the Fatherland's needs! . . . Along this path we must advance. God help us! Long live Rumania!" The Peasant Party's Dr. Maniu, even though no Rumanian paper could print his words, denounced King Carol for having "assembled a conglomeration of persons . . . which will cover the real executives of the King...
...More orthodox capitalist conduct of the finances of the Fatherland, whereas the Nazi radicals have always been for virtual socialization of Germany...