Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine of "collective security," and of course by Russia. Dictator Stalin would be glad to sign an Eastern Pact with Germany but finds Der Fuhrer utterly cold to that. In the making of any pact...
Since Der Führer dosed the Fatherland with his anti-Jewish purge, German Jews from Scientist Einstein down to the small-town sausagemaker have been kicked around. Prime exception has been 47- year-old German Jew Arnold Bernstein, head of Arnold Bernstein Line, Red Star Line and Palestine Shipping Co. Hitler, during his four years of dictatorship, has paternally patted Mr. Bernstein's head, graciously welcomed his contributions to German trade. Loudly cheered by Nazis was Jew Bernstein for elaborately equipping "garage ships" and docks with high-speed elevators, enabling cars to be transported at big savings. Loudly...
...western Europe, only one treaty-ally, the French Republic. Therefore, since Comrade Navachine, who had sold France on Stalin in the first place, was now going to try to unsell France on Stalin, the situation in which Paris agents of the Ogpu found themselves was "vital to the Soviet Fatherland...
...time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
...Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland was too despicable, too foul, to be put adequately into words by even the most picturesque proletarian...