Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U. S. patriots have been disturbed by a similarity between U. S. school children's straight-arm salute to their flag and Nazis' salute to their Führer. Last week New York City's School Superintendent Harold George Campbell put a stop to arm raising, directed pupils to salute by holding their fingers at their forehead, soldier-fashion...
...tain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want war, and I regret making your acquaintance under these circumstances." Then they talked business. The German terms were hard but not unacceptable. The Vichy press even approved the "grandeur" of Hitler's attitude toward...
...train went on. Four days later it pulled to a stop in a town where the Renaissance settled permanently, Florence. The Führer drove to the medieval Palazzo Vecchio, and under a portrait of Machiavelli, who once worked in the room, he and Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano spread out their papers. At that moment the Italian Army was poised to reach its armored fingernails into the flesh of Greece. Hitler explained all he had done. Satisfaction was enormous. This was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, and after the genial conference...
Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag-the South Pole...
...others. Beecher does not let his cons black out his pros in his protesting acceptance of the world as it is. But there is one world figure for whom he has absolutely no use: Hitler. "And I Will Be Heard" ends with a cordial assurance to the Führer that he will die, and that the U. S. will take over...