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Stalin, said Moscow Radio, had drafted the orders "utilizing the rich and many-sided experience of the Great Fatherland War," and "permeated with . . . solicitude for the might of the Soviet Armed Forces." But there was no doubt that Stalin was permeated also by solicitude over the fact that in the wake of the Great Fatherland War, undisciplined occupation troops proved Russia's most potent ambassadors of ill will...
...Democracy is sometimes called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship of the proletariat in fact is democracy in action. ... As long as dictatorship acts in the name of the people for the welfare of the fatherland, it is sacred. When it acts against the people, it is criminal. In Russia, our regime is one of democratic dictatorship...
...Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstdngl, onetime court pianist to Adolf Hitler, was about to be returned to Germany, much against his wishes. In British and American hands through most of the war-and often rumored to be helping the Allies against the Fatherland-he was now in England, had no taste for facing "German underground fanatics" back home...
...Germany's Communist Party continued its agitation for "national unity," flatly announced that it would fight separation of the Ruhr and Rhineland from the rest of the Fatherland...