Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other was plotting a coup. Issuing a "last warning," Tshombe put his press aide on the air with the message: "If Moise Tshombe wants to take Brazzaville, it would only be a question of two hours." From across the river came a shriek of rage addressed to "The Hitler of Africa...
...country. "France," he decided in early youth, "cannot be France without greatness." As an army colonel in the 1930s, he was keenly aware of his country's disavowal of that destiny. Petty partisan squabbling and interminable changes of government kept France's defenses in a shambles. While Hitler armed to the teeth, the French staked all on their grande illusion, the Maginot Line. Risking his career, De Gaulle badgered his superiors to create a mechanized army capable of swift, massive attack. Only Hitler took his advice. France's capitulation, he writes, was the expression of a "profound...
...outbursts, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was still busy in Washington. To counter Indonesia's threat that it will "crush Malaysia"-which it probably could do, thanks to Soviet aid in arms and training-the Tunku was seeking U.S. military assistance. Sukarno, said the Tunku, "is to us what Hitler was to Europe...
Everyone knows how exasperating Charles de Gaulle was during World War II. Arrogant and aloof, he demanded his own way, and when he did not get it he sulked. At times he seemed to irritate F.D.R. more than Hitler or Tojo, and Churchill grumped that "My biggest cross is the Cross of Lorraine." But French Historian Robert Aron contends that the Allies never understood what De Gaulle...
...Catholic Church do much better. In a new book called The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, Political Scientist Guenter Lewy of the Univer sity of Massachusetts argues persuasively that the opposition of the bishops to Hitler was limited to occasional protests against his violations of the concordat with the Vatican. "At no time," he concludes, "did the Church challenge the legitimacy of the Nazi regime or give her explicit or implicit approval to the various attempts to bring about its downfall. While thousands of anti-Nazis were beaten to a pulp in concentration camps, the Church talked of supporting...