Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite dodge of the authors of this spooky reportage was to link their stories to the activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would...
Addressing a session of the annual Congress of German Art last week at Munich, Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner welcomed the artists present, assured them that if the present world knew anything about contemporary German art, it would be recognized as indispensable...
...good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer...
...Franklin Roosevelt proposes to save if necessary. He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their own selfish interests. "It is not surprising," rumbled the idol of Idaho, "that the majority of the House did not make any distinction between dictators and democracies but pursued the old system of considering alone the interests of the people of the United...
...hrer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone out of his way to attack the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty. He has charged that he was a leader of the "British war party." Once, in a speech shortly after Munich, the Führer said that should Mr. Churchill (or Anthony Eden) replace Mr. Chamberlain, Germany would undoubtedly be faced with...