Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those limits: "From the Maas" (the Meuse, which flows through northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands) "to the Memel" (or Niemen, now part of the dividing line between German and Russian Poland...
...your Sept. 11 issue, p. 68, . . . you speak of Germany's Deutschland Uber Alles as being one of its hymns of might. You're wrong. It is anything but that. It is a hymn of German unity, written by a liberal-minded German professor about 1841 and he promptly lost his academic position, travelled incognito from door to door begging his bread. The poem really sets limits to the geographical boundary of Germany...
...Philadelphia boy or a mutual acquaintance who could write imaginative reports, D. N. B. did not venture to explain. Bill Bullitt flatly denied that such a conversation had ever taken place. He admitted talking to Biddle that day over a bad connection, to get "specific and complete statements" about German bombardments in Poland, and that was all there was to it, except for Nazi "inventions...
...Communists jumped from the train with what dignity they could. Frail, bespectacled Granville Hicks, a free-lance critic, writer (I Like America, John Reed-The Making of a Revolutionary), whose appointment to a Harvard fellowship raised a great stir in 1938, resigned not because he disapproved of the Russo-German Pact, but because bigwig Reds approved it before they could possibly know anything about it. ''The leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have clutched at straws, juggled sophistries...
Meantime the U. S. adherents of Joseph Stalin's new partner temporarily lost their leader by arrest. German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn, who has been out on $5,000 bail since he was charged with stealing $14,000 from his outfit (TIME, June 5), had to go to jail in Manhattan in default of $50,000 bail. His bail was upped, an assistant district attorney explained, when Prosecutor Tom Dewey heard that Mr. Kuhn was about to skip the country...