Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrested, shackled and handcuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them." Many could recall when anti-German feeling ran so high that it was hazardous to say "Auf Wiedersehen" on the street, when German opera singers were howled down, the Boston Symphony's German Conductor Dr. Karl Muck was interned, and the father of Senator La Follette was burned in effigy...
...Died. Karl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, 80, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prizewinner (1916), who revolted against literary pessimism, wrote nationalist epics (The Charles Men) glorifying war; in Stockholm...
When Herr Vicco Karl von Biilow-Schwante, Germany's Ambassador to Belgium, called upon Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, May 10, in Brussels to deliver Germany's notice of "protection," Mr. Spaak cut him short before he could speak. "I have something to say to you before you begin," said Spaak. "The answer is negative." And he presented the German with a Belgian note of his own. The German insisted that he came only to offer Belgium the "protection" of long-suffering Fuhrer Hitler against "invasion" by France and Great...
Rumania. Following a week of tough talk, King Carol weakened and came to terms with Germany's tougher trade negotiator Dr. Karl Clodius. In return for promises of "huge quantities of munitions and squadrons of airplanes," Rumania amended her trade treaty with the Reich and agreed to deplete her own reserves in order to deliver the $8,000,000 worth of wheat ordered by Dr. Clodius a few days before an export embargo was declared. Under Allied pressure, Rumania refused to increase her monthly oil shipments of 130,000 tons to Germany or to re-evaluate her currency...
...Oslo, as the fortnight wore on, there was no peace. Leland Stowe had written of the first day of the invasion, "Like children, the people stared." Some of them fled to the mountains, but most stayed in Oslo's streets-while German soldiers bivouacked in Karl-Johans Boulevard and sang Rhenish love songs...