Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typified by Argentina (see LATIN AMERICA), the crowding of belated neutrals and unsavory regimes to San Francisco's door heightened the sickly mood. A New York cartoonist pen-pointed the prevalent mistrust with a Satanic vision of Hitler and Hirohito (see cut), united for the peace and chortling: "You declare war on me, I declare war on you and we both go to San Francisco...
...millions of German minds the brief, impressive years of resurgence and victory had rooted Hitler's ideas too deeply and too well for them to be torn out overnight. In postwar Europe, Germany would be ever present, ever dangerous-and ever necessary to the rest of the continent...
Three Allied statesmen shot their cuffs at the vexed & vexing question of what to do with Hitler, Hirohito...
Anthony Eden was asked in the House of Commons: "Would it be the duty of a British soldier who seeks Hitler to shoot him or try to bring him back alive?" Replied Mr. Eden: "I am very content to leave that to the judgment of any British soldier...
...Allies were not merely waiting for that trap to spring. American and British tank columns cut eastward along Adolf Hitler's wide superhighways with overwhelming power. The farthest advanced Americans were only 198 miles from the nearest Russians. What was left to the Germans for the defense of Berlin, of Leipzig and Munich was a beaten, confused, retreating mass that could turn to fight only in knots of resistance. The last hope of the Nazi command seemed to be only this : abandon the north-south defense of Germany as speedily as possible and pivot to hold the southern bastion...