Word: fiihrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
Part of the supposedly humiliating agreement which Hitler forced on Austria was that Schuschnigg would order Austrian stations to broadcast Hitler's Reichstag speech last fortnight, but the Austrian simultaneously forced the Fiihrer to agree to order German stations to broadcast Schuschnigg's speech last week. The result was that German radio listeners heard the least Nazi political speech broadcast by the big German stations since 1933. Zealous Nazis were wild with rage. Adolf Hitler himself was late for a public appointment because he had lingered by his radio set listening to Kurt von Schuschnigg. Next day scores...
...clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...Wagnerian neo-paganism (see p. 18), Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House opened its annual Wagner cycle. Not even in Wagner-worshipping Germany will these operas (Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle), be more reverently, painstakingly and expertly performed. But where the all-conquering Siegfried represents Der Fiihrer to every starry-eyed German backfisch, he will remain for U. S. operagoers a poetic figure of ancient and barbarous legend...
...Free Hand/' Other cards laid face up by Halifax reputedly exposed Hitler's claim to a "free hand" in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that is, Der Fiihrer claims that Britain and France have no right to do other than stand aside in case Germany sees fit to use such pressure or weapons as would reduce Vienna and Prague to the status of vassals of Berlin. The British last week found the French as adamant against giving Hitler any such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies...