Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These British!" Despite Harold Macmillan's insistence-a correct one-that he had been one of the few British politicians to oppose the Munich deal with Hitler and was not advocating appeasement now, most of Britain's partners continued to cherish a surprisingly strong suspicion that Britain is "wobbly" over Berlin. There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness. Charles de Gaulle flatly declared that disengagement would be disastrous unless it involved "a zone that is as near to the Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise...
Senator Thomas John Dodd has praised Mr. John Foster Dulles for his unchanging outlook and foreign policy. He said that "flexibility implies compromise and concession | TIME, March 9] ... Have we forgotten the lessons of the Hitler era, with its compromises, concessions and flexibilities?" He belabors his point too far. There is a difference between yielding to Hitler's every wish, and allowing a foreign policy to change as the world situation changes-and the world changes over six years or fourteen...
While pointing out that there are important differences between Berlin and Munich, Ellsberg reminded his audience that the final decision to abandon Czechoslovakia to the Nazis hinged on Hitler's determination to make good his threats to start World War II and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's reluctance to fulfill Allied treaties...
...Warsaw, Erich Koch, former Gauleiter of East Prussia and Hitler's Reichskommissar in occupied Ukraine, stood accused of responsibility or complicity in the gas-chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison and four months on trial, frail emaciated Erich Koch, now 62, was still defiant. Coughing into a handkerchief, sipping tea and porridge to rally his strength, Koch made long, fiery speeches in Polish in his own defense, disputing the court's right to try him, insisting that Polish Communists were guilty...
Poland and Greece have announced that now their dockets are clear. Wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau: "For many Germans the Hitler era is a forgotten nightmare, buried in a nebulous past. But outside Germany the memories are still alive whether we like...