Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's puppet press went too far. After one look at the article in which a Soviet newsman compared President Harry Truman to Adolf Hitler, the U.S. State Department took a hand. In Moscow; Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith presented a stiff protest to the Russian foreign office: "I cannot recall that Dr. Goebbels, of unsavory memory . . . ever stooped to greater ridicule and vituperation. ... I would never have believed that a Soviet writer.would permit himself, or be permitted, to draw an analogy between the President of the U.S. and our recent common enemy...
...Dear Sumner." Not unaware of the headlines it was about to make, the committee called upon Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, to identify two "Dear Sumner" notes which Mrs. Roosevelt had written to him concerning Eisler in 1939. Eisler, as a refugee music professor from Hitler Germany, was then attempting to get into the U.S. through Cuba, but was being denied a visa as a suspected Communist. With her first note, on White House stationery, Mrs. Roosevelt sent Welles a batch of papers given to her by a friend of Eisler's, a "perfectly honest person...
...Myers napping. As soon as he crossed the border at Calexico, Calif., he was picked up by immigration authorities. He was allowed to remain in the U.S. only after he had sworn that he had never been a Communist and that he hated Stalin as much as he hated Hitler...
...mostly C.I.O., picketed him. A thousand pickets greeted him in San Francisco. In Los Angeles more than 500 unionists jammed the block in front of the Elks Temple. Some bore signs with crude legends like: "Taft is a stinker, Taft is a schnook, Taft stole a leaf out of Hitler's story book." Some, who were promptly arrested (under a city ordinance) for masquerading, wore Taft-like masks and carried signs which read: "I look like Taft but I don't want to crucify labor...
...there had never been any doubt about the views of its editor. A crusading and widely respected internationalist, Armstrong contributed many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...