Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hanfstaengl said that his father was doing historical research in Scotland when the war broke out. Hanfstaengl senior had hoped to come to America in a few months, but he was interned along with all other German citizens living in Great Britain, according...
Exemplifying this trend is Ernest Fiene, German-born American painter. His oil, Night Shift, strongly protests against the humanity-stifling power of industry and its ever-increasing tendency to draw the life-blood from the individuality of the laborers. We see a group of shabbily-dressed workers slowly trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter...
...Greene will not say this outright. America need not join the fight until "issues vitally affecting our national interests" are at stake. But here Mr. Greene's interpretation of what these issues are leaves America very little choice. For it is his opinion that a "final victory of German force over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country." Here, then, is the vital issue...
...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...
Greene suggested that "the final victory of German forces over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country...