Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Charlie a while to find himself. He drifted restlessly from job to job. Once he tried writing a column for a Negro weekly. After he had described an imaginary interview with Hitler, the editor demoted him to chauffeur. The outlook was gloomy when Charlie was caught signing a friend's name to a check...
Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...
...which the Communists call "a gutter sheet"). Gerhart went on to Moscow, presumably as a reliable Comintern cog. From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked their intended journey to Mexico...
...luck. . . ." Then Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, who had nothing to say. Then Hans Frank: "I am thankful for the kind treatment during my imprisonment and I ask God to accept me with mercy." Then Wilhelm Frick: "Long live eternal Germany!" Then Julius Streicher, who looked wild-eyed and yelled "Heil Hitler." When asked for his name, he roared: "You know it well." From the gallows he jeered: "Purim Festival 1946"-and: "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day." As the black hood was placed over his head, his raucous voice could be heard saying: "Adele, my dear wife...
Significantly, SED polled exactly the same amount of votes which the Communist Party polled in Berlin's last free elections before Hitler, in 1933. It was a measure of its disastrous unpopularity that it was beaten even in the Russian sector of Berlin. TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief John Scott cabled a portentous conclusion: "This fiasco will, in my view, clinch the opinion of Russian leaders that they must resign themselves to losing political control, at least temporarily, over almost any area where reasonable political freedom exists...