Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. G. (for George) Ward Price, 75, intrepid London Daily Mail correspondent who covered every European conflict from the Balkan War of 1912 through World War II, scored a succession of 1930s scoops as a Hitler confidant and apologist ("Behind the forceful character which Hitler displays in public, there is a pleasant personality known only to his intimates"); after a long illness; in London...
...Berlin-born girl friend, Lotte Kuhn,-but also the comfortable knowledge that each purged comrade meant more room for himself as he scrambled toward the top job in Communism's German party. No one cherished leadership more avidly, nor curried favor with the Kremlin more expectantly. When the Hitler-Stalin treaty was signed, Ulbricht dutifully put his pen to work in the pact's support. "Whoever intrigues against the friendship of the German and Soviet people is an enemy of the German people," he wrote in 1940. "Under no circumstances can a breach of the pact be tolerated...
...Wall Street. Such sterling services produced their due reward. When the Germans finally attacked their "ally." Stalin named Ulbricht a top member of the National Committee for Free Germany, which organized anti-Hitler propaganda campaigns in German prisoner-of-war camps, broadcast Moscow's message by loudspeaker to the Nazi divisions around Stalingrad. The National Committee was no great success in winning over the enemy. But it did serve as a readymade nucleus for Communist administration when the time came to move into postwar Germany. When Hitler's armies collapsed, one man was the logical choice to carry...
...today,'' he wrote. "My mind is clear and quiet, and I choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza-300 original plasters from which most of his bronze sculptures have been cast...
...meant M.R.A. to be a "God-guided campaign to prevent war by moral and spiritual awakening." It failed to prevent war, and it earned considerable censure for seeming to rely heavily on "changing" dictators; Buchman had the misfortune to exclaim publicly: "I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler." After World War II, M.R.A. turned to attacking Communism...