Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Count Teleki had committed suicide in despair-perhaps even to arouse his people-because he believed Hungary was about to be completely engulfed by Hitler, or whether he had been killed by the Gestapo lest he initiate an anti-Axis coup d'état like that which took place in Belgrade last fortnight, he died because his policy was fatal. The "tightrope Premier," who had tried to serve Hungary's interests by cooperating with Germany, was not able to make...
...Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since he spilled bushels of Communazi beans in his best-selling Out of the Night...
...charges against him would be the facts, which he swore to be true, that he had written in his book. The author: "Jan Valtin," whose autobiographical Out of the Night is the life and hard times of an ex-Communist spy who fell into the hands of the Gestapo. It is the season's literary hot cake...
...constituent telling how a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman had said that she would be framed and that the Mounties had been ordered to "keep their eyes and ears open" because she would soon be interned. "I would say," she went on, "that if this Canadian version of the Gestapo continues . . . the Government will have to answer to the Canadian people...
...Gestapo" was too much for the Government benches. The whole west of the Chamber raised the roof with outraged yowls of "Order! Order!" When order finally came Mrs. Nielsen finished neatly by taking words out of Lapointe's mouth. "I will do what I think is right whatever may be the consequences...