Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks. They were that "aggression must fail," that the allies must press pacification and development programs in South Viet Nam, that the budding spirit of cooperation among Asians must be nurtured, and that peace must be pursued. The important thing, he said, was not to mislead Hanoi as Hitler was misled before World War II. "I know that some people scoff at my use of Munich to illustrate this point," he said. "But you just can't laugh at the principle of it. We cannot let our indifference be their invitation...
...hours later, more than a thousand demonstrators materialized on the lawn under his hotel window carrying placards that could not be answered this side of sanity: HEIL LYNDON, said one; JOHNSON is HITLER'S GRANDSON? asked another. Egged on by leaders of a Communist-front group called Kabataang Makabayan, the demonstration dissolved into a rock-throwing riot, and before it ended, 20 protesters had been carted off in patrol wagons and a dozen in ambulances...
...mechanical engineer, won a master's degree at M.I.T. the next year, then went on to Caltech. Commissioned a colonel in the Air Force during World War II, he headed a brain trust in Germany at war's end to scout Hitler's missile techniques...
...such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman at Dunkirk and a U.S. Marine sergeant on Guam. By far the best value is found in the 720 pictures (92 in color), which capture the events from the Treaty of Versailles to the rise of Hitler to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri...
...Prague, they gleefully translated his Czech name literally-"bad weed." Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination helped spark World War I, once growled, "That fellow's bones ought to be broken." He wrote plays that people called mad, but mainly he painted pictures that few people liked. Hitler unhesitatingly banned him as "degenerate." Kokoschka cheerfully outlived them all; today, at 80, he is more generative than ever...