Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crux of the matter: Wilson's attempt to reach an accord as to how, and at what rate, Moscow would repay a credit of ?55,000,000, resulting from a wartime agreement hastily made with the Soviet Union in 1941 after Hitler invaded Russia. In that, he had failed-the Russians insisted adamantly on terms which the British could not afford to meet. A reporter asked: "Is the door completely shut?" Replied Wilson: "That's up to the Russians...
...most determined women in the Dominion. Last spring, when Dr. Whitton criticized Alberta's penny-saving welfare system, Provincial Health Minister W. W. Cross shrugged her off as just "a human talking machine." He would run his department as before. Cracked Dr. Whitton: "Didn't Hitler say his empire would endure 1,000 years...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...services-the title of Staatsrat (for doctoring President von Hindenburg), the German National Prize and a post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charité patients that the fighting stop immediately...
...defense: "I am a political idiot. Hitler did not ask German women whether they wanted this war." Amid applause from the other women, she exclaimed: "If Hitler had won the war, I can assure you he would not have jailed Mrs. Roosevelt or Mrs. Truman...