Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that they will compel their governments to give in without reciprocal concessions...
...that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during his enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck...
...shoulder arms in World War I, for example, not on religious but on personal grounds (he later served with an ambulance unit in France). His pacifism sometimes sounded like appeasement at nearly any price. The Statesman was the first publication in Great Britain to advocate ceding the Sudetenland to Hitler. Early in World War II, the New Statesman hinted at a negotiated peace. It questioned the legality of U.S. intervention in Korea, editorialized: "The Communist offensive in Korea has given American imperialism just the opportunity it deserved." Recently, one of its top editors could write of the "remarkably endearing...
...name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career he transformed into the Broadway hit, The Happiest Millionaire...
...Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart. A sprawling, harrowing, quasi-epic novel that follows, often with eloquence, the travails of Europe's Jews from the medieval pogroms to Hitler's crematories...