Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expedient necessitated by the fact that Britain and the Commonwealth were "not ready for war." Growled the Times (which supported Munich): "The reply must be to ask why they were not." For though Chamberlain himself had realized the urgent need for rearmament four years before Munich, and later described Hitler as a "lunatic," he could close his eyes to all unpleasant evidence. He left the first meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1938 radiating confidence that "here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...
...convinced that it was a great, enduring master stroke that, as he boasted, would assure "peace with honor, peace for our time." Too often, Author Macleod's biography soft-pedals Chamberlain's naiveté and glosses over his smugness and arrogance, such as his unfeeling verdict on Hitler's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia: "A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...
World War II had the unexpected effect of casting Visser 't Hooft in a new role-underground leader. Even before the war began, rescuing Jews and others from Hitler's Germany was one of his prime concerns. Karl Barth once told him of an imprisoned pastor Barth was especially worried about, and Wim remembered a beer-drinking session he had had in 1933 with a blackshirted Nazi who turned out to be Heinrich Himmler. So Churchman Visser 't Hooft wrote Nazi Himmler. recalling the incident, and succeeded in having the pastor released...
...catnip, canny Heinz Weigt has bestowed membership on a sprinkling of industrial and show business high society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...
...government labeled "unconstitutional," called for democratic rights, economic progress and an enlightened colonial policy. But the opposition's main target was 72-year-old António de Oliveira Salazar, for as one candidate exclaimed: "The government's only hope is that Salazar is immortal. Like Hitler and Mussolini, this regime is holding out to the bitter moment when all crashes about...