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...rosy notions about the Communist regime circulated in the West, and so-called progressive public opinion greeted it with joy, in spite of the fact that by 1921, 30 Russian provinces were undergoing a Cambodia-like genocide. (In Lenin's lifetime, no fewer innocent civilians perished than under Hitler, and yet today American schoolchildren, who invariably regard Hitler as the greatest villain in history, look upon Lenin as Russia's benefactor.) The Western powers vied with one another to give economic and diplomatic support to the Soviet regime, which could not have survived without this aid. Europe took...
...years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, who had served in the army of the Third Reich and had been a member of Hitler Youth. The bitterest blow of Juliana's reign was the public disgrace of her husband Prince Bernhard, whose role in the Lockheed bribery scandal was exposed in 1976. Like other crises, the Lockheed affair brought out the iron in Juliana's character. "Mammie," as the family calls...
...understood the political and public relations possibilities of the Olympics better than Adolf Hitler. The show he staged in Berlin in 1936 was, in its grandiose effects, designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made...
...would have cut both ways, of course. It would have shown Jesse Owens, the black American, taking three gold medals from the Master Race. TV might have had some earnest little between-meets features discussing Hitler's anti-Semitic programs (the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, for example, which denied citizenship and livelihood to Germany's Jews). Might have; but sports television's mentality runs to the upbeat, the visually appealing and, obviously, the accessible...
...claimed increased the "chances of nuclear confrontation." As for the President's thinking that it might be possible to negotiate with Iran because of its fear of the Soviet Union, Carter was "either deceitful or a fool." Said the former California Governor, alluding to the British appeasement of Hitler: "We're seeing the same kind of atmosphere that we saw when Mr. Chamberlain was tapping his cane on the cobblestones of Munich...