Word: forster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Germany's journalistic big guns, their aim corrected twice daily, poured an unceasing barrage on Poland. Danzig's Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster spent two hours with the Führer, hurried to Danzig to thunder still another demand for its return to the Reich-but significantly set no date nor hour for the return. Danzig itself was in a bad way. Its business had gradually approached a standstill-and Nazi papers accused Poland of strangling its trade. Its armed force of Nazis was estimated at 15,000, augmented last week by 1,500 spade-equipped members...
With pomp reminiscent of old Imperial Germany, Adolf Hitler, Aggrandizer of the Reich, last week celebrated his 50th birthday. The representatives of conquered nations paid him humble homage. The envoys of fearful satellites rendered respectful tribute. Albert Forster, Nazi No. 1 of the Free City of Danzig, presented a document which made the Fuhrer an honorary citizen of a town he may soon appropriate. Special delegations from Germany's allies were received in special audience...
...WRITINGS OF E. M. FORSTER-Rose Macaulay-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Fourteen years after Forster's novel, A Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...
...City of Danzig with a population predominantly German. Nearly three years ago Danzig's citizens went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for a pro-Nazi local government. Last year Danzig's ancient Hanseatic flag was given a corner in the Nazi Swastika flag, Nazi Leader Albert Forster publicly acknowledged his loyalty to Adolf Hitler, and the world waited to see how soon Germany would openly annex the Baltic city...
Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...