Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants diplomacy, Welles was widely admired in Latin America...
...take any U.S. antagonism to shift West Germany to the Soviet Union, he said. Bismark turned to Russia, the Weimar Republic turned to Russia, and Hitler turned to Russia. For this reason he suggested that an economically strong and rearmed West Germany might well "make a deal" with the Communist sphere...
...author of The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich maintained that there are more Nazis in the present West German foreign office than there were in Hitler's. "It doesn't hurt you in Germany be a Nazi," he said. "That business should keep in mind...
...Germany. But it is difficult to fault Ike on his resolution of the strategic choices before him. Sums up authoritative Military Historian Forrest (The Supreme Command) Pogue, in Command Decisions: "When considered from the purely military viewpoint, his decision was certainly the proper one." In the war against Hitler, mistakes were made; but the key errors were the political agreements to divide Germany after the battle, not the military decisions on how to conquer...
...back streets of Berlin of the '20s, where blank-faced men and women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner. It was not until 1945 that he took up his brushes again...