Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give Bulgaria strong support to demand from Rumania the return of Dobruja. Dobruja is a province that Bulgaria lost to Rumania in 1913. Bulgaria has undertaken to barter almost her whole exportable surplus of raw materials to Germany, thus is economically to a great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties in an effort to get "national union" support for the Cabinet of Premier Dr. Constantin Argetoianu, formed after the assassination last month...
...thus cracking down on the Jews, the Führer apparently has secured sufficient funds to be able to forego the 20% capital levy on all German property threatened last February but which never materialized. However this year the immense Hitler Winter Relief Fund, to which Gentiles as well as Jews are virtually forced to contribute, is being spent at the discretion of Nazi bigwigs not only for charity but in prosecuting the war. Another money squeeze is the Volkswagon subscription. Since the summer of 1938 the organization created to manufacture Adolf Hitler's famed Volkswagon or "People...
...Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...
...election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
...Eric Phipps was educated at esthetic King's College, Cambridge. At 24 he passed the competitive examinations for the Diplomatic Corps, and was assigned in turn to posts in Paris, Constantinople, Rome, Paris again, Petrograd, Madrid, Paris again, London, Brussels, Paris again, and Vienna. In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. There he spent four incredibly difficult years, so distinguished himself in crisis after crisis that the Nazis, smarting under his smartness, were glad to hear of his transfer back to Paris (as Ambassador) in February 1937. And the French were delighted...