Word: hitleritis
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...youth, "Like most people with some political consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler was threatening to conquer Europe in a fit of anti-Semitic and racist rage and poverty in America was pervasive...
...titillating voice told of "cinemactresses," or "great and good friends" (TIME code for lovers) or other uber-brat coinages. When Wallis Warfield Simpson, having lured Edward VIII from the throne of England, was named TIME's Woman of the Year for 1936--a year in which Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao were all on the march and F.D.R. was elected in a landslide to a second term--TIME the titillator delivered this quote: "'My, my!' sighed [Argentine] Ambassador [Felipe] Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, 'who would ever have dreamed that our Little Wallis would ever be where...
...dominant figures of the 1930s came to power almost simultaneously: Adolf Hitler on Jan. 30, 1933; Franklin D. Roosevelt 33 days later. It was no coincidence. Each embodied drive and vision--one diabolic, the other democratic--at the very moment their respective countries, and the world, had reached a nadir of economic and social despair...
Which made him something of an anomaly. Outside the U.S. the 1930s was an era of dictatorship and, increasingly, of death. In the Soviet Union millions perished in the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 and the Great Terror of 1936-38. Hitler, meanwhile, was ending German unemployment largely by building a war machine that had to be turned loose eventually--and was, on Sept...
...good and not that there weren't terrible sacrifices, but World War II, as TIME dubbed it, was a war that had to be fought and won. This was an unambiguous struggle between good and evil. It was not just about national interests but also about values. Hitler and Tojo had to be defeated; there was no doubt about it. The U.S. was the "home front"; the "war effort" was priority No. 1; and complaints were met with a standard reply: "Don't you know there's a war on?" The country felt extraordinarily close to its far-off troops...