Word: lebensraum
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...released a purported "Göring memorandum." This document offered: 1) recognition of the British Empire; 2) U.S. control of Latin America; 3) trade collaboration between the German, British and U.S. Empires in return for: 1) German control of Europe; 2) such Russian territory as was needed for Lebensraum; 3) the colonies of France, The Netherlands and Belgium. London denied receiving any offers at all. Washington thought they were small potatoes if anything. Presumably The Big Talk had little to do with Axis peace efforts...
...Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt took his place last week in the long line of Turkey's suitors. He looked the situation over. He needed Lebensraum -because the small, comparatively shabby U.S. Embassy could seat only twelve guests for dinner. And he needed household goods; the Embassy did not have a set of glassware that matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived corps...
...said a dispatch this week from Oslo. The mass resignation followed another coat turning by Vidkun Quisling, who decided to call himself a theologian. Claiming ex-officio standing as "First Bishop" of the established Lutheran Church of Norway, Quisling announced a "new Norwegian Christianity based on race and Lebensraum...
...materials, freedom, nourishment, Lebensraum, the basis for social reform of our state and the opportunity of full development for the Axis powers. If we lose, all this, this and still more, will be lost-namely, our whole national existence...
...carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom of access to markets and raw materials open to nations large or small, political boundaries will be less important and autonomy for small cultural blocs an economic possibility. The fight for lebensraum finally may be ended...