Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked about Soviet Russia, he made gently critical or defensive statements. The strongest thing he would say was: "I detest dictatorship," quickly adding that the idea that Hitler's dictatorship and Stalin's dictatorship are alike is "criminal ... a myth...
...Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
...rich refugees left a trail of alarm and despondency. In the hotels they cursed the British and the Jews ("At least Hitler would have killed them all"). Said one British official in Jerusalem last week: "The whole effendi class has gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH...
...learned his mistake. When Hitler's ambassador, Vicco Karl von Bülow-Schwante, arrived to announce the invasion on the morning of May 10, Spaak shut him off: "No, you are not going to read this to me. I know what it is ... I am the one who is going to speak, and what I have to say is-get the hell out of here." Spaak went to France when his country fell, escaped through Spain to London, after hiding from Franco's police in the bottom of an orange-laden truck...
...biggest turnouts of voters since the rise of Hitler, Germans in Bavaria and Hesse (U.S. zone) last week went to the polls to elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right...