Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany took its first steps in parliamentary government since Adolf Hitler reduced the old Reichstag to the status of a servile operatic chorus. The voice of the new Federal Republic's Bundestag last week was vigorous, sometimes shrill; in their new-found freedom of debate, the Germans missed few tricks...
...Does the Marshal expect that the war of words now being waged against him by the Cominform will be followed by a war of bullets, even as Hitler's barrage of invectives was the prelude for swift movement of panzer battalions...
...invite: "It's like heaven. Some are taken and some are left."¶Lord Lothian (1939-40), a Scottish Liberal and Christian Scientist who once lived in a hut next to Gandhi, loved speech-making and Southern fried chicken. Some said he had been in favor of appeasing Hitler, but his wartime patriotism was ardent and eloquent. ¶ Lord Halifax (1941-46), who also arrived with a faint aroma of appeasement clinging to his reputation, but soon became one of the most respected men in Washington. His character was an inspiring blend of force and gentleness, of practicality...
...which was trying him for subversion and espionage, he told a closely detailed story of 18 years of double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year he had engaged in a plot to overthrow the Rakosi regime by force, on orders of Yugoslav Marshal Tito's Interior Minister, Alexander Rankovich...
Ever since his great & good friends, Hitler & Mussolini, went down history's drain, Spain's Francisco Franco has suffered an international ostracism. In 1947, Argentina's Evita Perón broke into his loneliness with a spectacular visit. Last week it happened again-in double measure and double pleasure for Spain's plump dictator...