Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...
Claiming to have been always firmly anti-Nazi, Dr. Kersten is a Finnish citizen who now lives and practices in Sweden. He declares that he treated Himmler (also Ribbentrop, Hess, Ley, et al.) simply to protect his own family. He was also instrumental, he says, in sending thousands of victims of German concentration camps to safety into Switzerland and Sweden. Documents reproduced in his Memoirs, and an introduction by Biographer Konrad (Hitler) Heiden, indicate that his claims are true. So also may be his reports of tall Nazi ambitions. Samples...
...Berlin, 150,000 leftists, wearing red armbands and red carnations, trudged down Unter den Linden to the Lustgarten. Spark and spontaneity were lacking. "Mensch!" exclaimed a German who remembered May Day parades under Goebbels and Ley. "There is no spirit here-it's a funeral procession...
...Robert Ley's heart and mind were further opened to the public gaze: 1) in Berlin, where his will was read; 2) in Washington, where the results of a postmortem on the suicide's brain were announced. The bibulous Nazi labor leader's will paid dithery tribute to "the beautiful women who have embellished my life so much," Inga (wife) and Madeleine Wanderer (mistress). U.S. Army pathologists, who have had the Ley brain since last October (see cut), found that the areas controlling behavior had suffered "a longstanding degenerative process . . . sufficient ... to have impaired Dr. Ley...
...Senator called in reporters, baldly announced that he had sent General Brad ley a "virtual ultimatum" to take over a 750-bed Army hospital in Okmulgee, a small Oklahoma oil town. The hospital is not fireproof, and it is within 37 miles of another Veterans' Hospital (prewar, pork-barrel style) in another small town, Muskogee. VA plans call for a new 1,000-bed building in Oklahoma City. But the Senator was looking for a fight. "If the VA does not take this hospital over," he said, "I will ask why when they come before the Senate for more...