Word: hitlerian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...Hitlerian Promises. That night's daring work-the sinking of the Royal Oak-was one of the most clear-cut successes that the German navy achieved in World War II. Winston Churchill admiringly called it an "incredible . . . feat of arms." This book is a selection of the papers from some 60,000 files of German naval archives, containing practically all the official ships' logs, diaries and memoranda relating to the German navy up to April 1945. Hitler and His Admirals, unlike Liddell Hart's The German Generals Talk, contains no postwar interviews with German officers. Nor does...
...Leader. "The most remarkable change of all has been the emergence from the group of little-known militarists of a President-General who could be confused with no one else in history. With a superb sense of showmanship and a keen perception of the old Hitlerian formula that nonsense begins to make sense if repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history...
Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...