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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Nazis finally achieved undisputed power over Germany, one of the first things Hitler did was obtain a house for Evi in a fashionable district in Munich. It was listed in the directory under her own name: 'Wasserburgerstrasse 12; telephone 480844.' The Nazis considered it natural that Evi's years of faithful service should thus be rewarded, and her relationship to Hitler remained undefined. . . . She began referring to him as her betrothed. ... He also built for Evi a small house adjoining his own great estate at Berchtesgaden, and made a point of paying for this with...
...province is as remote and vague to most U. S. readers as darkest Uganda, its news has either been undiscovered or shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit parts of the province in 15 years. What he wrote was enough to make any parlor warrior drop his teacup...
...names of the villages (Liushe, Wangchiachuang, etc.) are meaningless 100 miles away, but in some, every single woman, without exception, was raped by the soldiers in occupation. In villages whose occupants had not fled quickly enough, the first action of the Japanese was to rout out the women and have at them; women who fled to grainfields for hiding were forced out by cavalry who rode their horses through the grain fields to trample them and frighten them into appearance...
...busy forenoon for Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's Chief of Army Staff. At 8 a.m. he and his staff arrived at La Punta, Cuba's Naval headquarters outside Havana, and ate breakfast with Naval Chief of Staff Colonel Angel Gonzalez. After numerous goodbys, Colonel Batista moved on, first to the island's police headquarters and next to Camp Columbia, where he repeated the leavetaking. The handsome, 38-year-old Army chief distributed his last promotions, reviewed police. Army and Naval detachments, then called up Lieut.-Colonel Jose Pedraza and put his own insignia on Pedraza...
...entering civil life to begin anew the fight we began in the Army-the fight for the welfare of Cuba. Our revolution was to benefit Cuba and our aspiration is to carry her to the first place among the democracies of the world. The armed forces are intended to force compliance with the laws. . . . The political parties supporting my candidacy will have no advantages or rights greater than those opposing...