Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933. Feininger at last came home to Manhattan, to sail his model boats on the pond in Central Park as he had as a boy, and to paint in the midst of war the most joyful canvases of his career. The school-of-Paris cubism he brought back with him helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink...
...special rolled into Warsaw 22 minutes late. "Polish sloppiness," growled an outraged German Communist. No less sourly, many a citizen of Warsaw noted that the black-red-and-gold flags scattered throughout Warsaw in Ulbricht's honor were the first German flags to fly over the city since Hitler's occupation troops were driven...
Believe it or not, in 1941 it was F.D.R. who said: "The Government of the United States will not order nor will Congress pass legislation ordering a closed shop . . . That would be too much like the Hitler method toward labor...
...military regimes have an understandable tendency towards self-perpetuation, and are, in general, reluctant to give up power. Once in, it is almost impossible to dislodge them; when they do leave finally, the situation is not much better than when they took over. There is no lack of instances: Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Nasser, and even Kemal Ataturk. It is indeed ironical that even Ataturk was not able to instill a democratic spirit amongst the Turks, nor prepare Turkey for democracy, with constitutional rights and safeguards, as daily events there today illustrate...
...hard-driving young (44) Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, who warned the world that Khrushchev's plan "clearly intends" having West Berlin cleared of Allied troops but left surrounded by Soviet divisions. Added the Berlin newspaper BZ: "We would be at the mercy of Communist intrigue. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have shown us how it is done. Suddenly there is unrest in the 'free city.' Then there are riots. Then come the 'spontaneous demonstrations'. Red flags appear. There are fights. Someone calls the 'People's Police.' The police come-and they stay...