Word: hitlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movement stands 'above party, class, race, or viewpoint'. . . . He sounded the usual warning against Communism. The M.R.A. classless society is the answer to the class struggle, he said; Communists see this, and that is why they malign the movement. ... I asked whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world democratic aims...
There, as refugees, come Willy Wiede-meyer, old friend of Adolf Hitler, and his wife and daughters. Fat Willy, a character who is in some ways a dead ringer for "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, plans to sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...
...ship's hold, that they were a token in a play of forces called history? History to a reindeer is the rising and the setting sun, begetting and dying, the north-and southward seasonal flight of birds. How could the two deer know that if a man named Hitler had never been born, if there had never occurred that crisis of European civilization one of whose phases is called Naziism, if the Germans had never invaded Norway, if the British had not come to help, they would still be nuzzlers of Lapland lichens in subarctic Norway, instead...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...
...further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...