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...Volksbote (the People's Messenger), the local Social Democratic Party paper; in 1930, not yet 17, he joined the party. When Adolf Hitler outlawed leftist parties in 1933, Herbert Frahm took the nom de guerre Willy Brandt, a name common in his hometown. Later that year, he fled on a fishing boat to Norway just as the Nazis were about to arrest...
...German troops occupied Norway, and Brandt fled again, this time to Sweden. He returned to Norway after the war and began a career in the Norwegian foreign service with a posting to Berlin as a military press attache. In 1947 he reapplied for the German citizenship the Nazis had stripped from him. "During my time 'outside,' I did not for one moment cease to regard myself as a German," Brandt later wrote. When his citizenship was restored in 1948, Brandt went to work as an aide to Ernst Reuter, the colorful mayor of West Berlin, and from that vantage point...
Carrying signs that boasted "See Bill run" and "Bill took our money and fled," 30 Cantabrigians gathered in front of City Hall demanding Walsh's resignation or removal as a member of the council...
Despite published reports that Walsh may have fled to San Francisco, Canada or Ireland, political allies and observers said yesterday the councillor will likely turn himself in when his legal counsel, Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan, returns to Boston tomorrow...
Perot had no firm strategy when he abruptly fled the race two months ago. Then, faced with headlines that branded him a quitter, and with the anger of disappointed loyalists, he quickly improvised a strange quasi-candidacy. At a cost of $480,000 a month, he is maintaining 64 field offices in addition to the Dallas headquarters. They operate as part of a new advocacy organization, United We Stand, which is also the title of a book he brought out in August. The slim volume contains the austere economic plan, including tax increases and spending cuts, that Perot never announced...