Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political as Peace and Literature, the Scandinavian selectors prefer to play much safer than that. Last week they chose for Peace two Americans who were more active during World War I than after World War II-and for Literature a German who left his native land not under Hitler but under the Kaiser...
...Ridders' Staats-Zeitung, after one false start, was steadfastly anti-Hitler. (Bernard Ridder, home from a 1933 trip to Berlin, sized up Hitler as "a man of peace.") Long before World War II, the Ridder papers went interventionist, which hurt them in the isolationist Midwest...
There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
...Donald never "went Chinese." And in 1940, after Hitler attacked Britain, the speeches he wrote for the Generalissimo became more & more anti-German. One night the Gissimo sent back a speech with a message: "I'm not at war with Hitler." Donald returned it with a crisp note: "I am." After that, despite Mme. Chiang's intercession, Donald thought it best to leave China...
...Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic that makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years later, hunted by Hitler and still haunted by his crime, he flees to France to refund the money-only to find that the sole heir is a hard-boiled French Nazi...