Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed their non-aggression pact in late August, Communists outside Russia have performed one verbal trapeze act after another. Particularly embarrassed by the Stalin-Hitler handshaking was British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, a stocky 48-year-old man long known as the British Party's "ablest propagandist and spokesman." Although he had long praised the Soviet Union, defended Dictator Stalin's frequent purges and written powerful pieces against Fascist aggressions, Secretary Pollitt could not see his way to follow the new "party line...
Meanwhile Willie Gallacher, lone Communist M.P., suddenly dropped his bellicose anti-Hitler baiting and became, along with Shaw, Sir Oswald Mosley, Haldane and Lloyd George, a plugger for peace. By last week London's Daily Worker had obviously re-established its pipeline to Moscow and instead of wild conjectures about the new Party line, was again dishing out the straight official Comintern dope. It front-paged an editorial about "imperialist statesmen" still "bargaining hard," continued...
Wilno to Liths. No. 3 on the Stalin card is Lithuania, which has no naval harbor worth Russia's taking. Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel. Nevertheless, last week in Moscow the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys signed with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a treaty reducing his country to the same status as Latvia and Estonia, but with two new wrinkles...
These Britons want to learn to fly, for they want to beat Adolf Hitler, and they respect the air power he can call up. But Britons encounter two insurmountable difficulties in their learning: the sun shines over Great Britain only one hour in every three; the island is too small and crowded for extended training flights...
...Adolf Hitler suddenly went insane, thus upsetting calculations based on prior readings of his mind...