Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsreels of the Squalus rescue. The audience was simply overcome with admiration . . . and clapped and stamped as the survivors were helped aboard the Falcon. Finally the man in back of me, a Colombian, poked me violently in the back and said fiercely: "There, you ugly German [anybody with blond hair in Bogotá is a German], that's what we of the Americas...
...their greater antiquity. But in the past few weeks this section has begun to relate some strange doings in France. Thus, in a dispatch dated July 6, 1789: "By intelligence from Paris . . . we learn that peace is far from being established in that Metropolis." Two days later: "Two German regiments were then brought out, which roused the indignation of the national troops, who . . . joined the mob. A dreadful havock was the consequence...
...reporting the arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored to be involved in an undescribed government inquiry...
Favorite dodge of the authors of this spooky reportage was to link their stories to the activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would...
Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...