Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fuhrer Hitler has never been much of a reader, but he has a passion for the cinema. He sometimes has three or four full-length pictures run off for him at one sitting, knows the cast of every German movie comedy. (Another memory feat: ability to give by heart names and descriptions of all U. S., British warships.) Favorite cinema repeaters now are the U. S. films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Viva Villa! He likes variety shows and his old preference for Wagnerian operas seems to have given way to light operas such as The Merry Widow...
...French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious...
...Belgian pursuit planes terrified passengers in a German transport which they forced down and searched. German planes had been repeatedly observed flying low over forbidden Belgian fortified areas...
Turkey, unlike Bulgaria and Hungary, had its fill of German alliances in the World War and wants no more of them. Although trading heavily with Nazi Germany, the Turks now look favorably on the British-French antiaggression "Peace Front." Last week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work...
...when he was a military attache in Washington, to sabotage ships and arms factories serving the Allies. He was suspected of implication in the famed Black Tom explosion. Only an apprentice plotter at the time, the Captain was soon caught so red-handed that President Wilson notified the Imperial German Government that the U. S. would have no more...