Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banking organizations to surrender to a government bureau all information concerning assets belonging to "racially, politically or religiously persecuted foreigners or stateless persons." The bill is the result of long prompting from Israel, which is convinced that huge fortunes were left in Switzerland by Jews who later died in Hitler's gas chambers. Since accounts inactive for 20 years revert to the banks, Israel began urging the Swiss as far back as 1954 to do something about the unclaimed treasure...
...Catholic Church today condemns serious belief in astrology as a grave sin; but as a man of his time, the great St. Thomas Aquinas held that "the celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world." Among modern believers, the worst advertisement is Adolf Hitler, who had five astrologers charting a course for him. Perhaps the most surprising was J. P. Morgan: he regularly consulted Astrologer Evangeline Adams, who, when haled into court, did so accurate a horoscope of the judge's son that the judge dismissed the case...
...Britain to be guest star at a convention of British Nazis. But when his presence was discovered, Scotland Yard picked him up and, with very little time wasted on legal argument, put him on a U.S.-bound plane. As he boarded his jet, Rockwell turned, made a Heil Hitler salute and shouted, "I'll be seeing...
...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...
...abused to provide a forum to such persons." Most editors were not inclined to test Vorster's interpretation of abuse. Said Author Paton, who was still surprisingly unbanned: "What astonishes me is that a minister with so much power, more power than anyone has had since Hitler and Stalin, can take such savage action against people who have no power at all. It reveals to me the great anxiety of our rulers...