Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TWICE the United States has saved France from the menace of a totalitarian regime. Without America, we would probably know the Nazi regime. Without the maintenance of American troops in Europe, we would probably be under the regime of Eastern Europe. However, from [respected novelists] to the intellectual "mandarins"' of the Left Bank, a majority of French writers have returned from the U.S. with severe, if not cruel, reports. An America which was our ally, but with a power that was supposedly equal to ours, was a friend to us. An America which is too strong provokes withdrawal...
Died. Colonel Graham W. West, 43, much-decorated U.S. commander of a Spitfire squadron in World War II who lost both legs fighting a ground fire near a booby-trapped Nazi plane in Tunis in 1943, recovered to fly with artificial legs in the D-day Normandy invasion; after a short illness; in Enterprise...
...both turn out to be flops, he flees to Paris, but Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...
Died. Hermann Röchling, 82, head of the Röchling Iron and Steel Works in Völklingen through World Wars I and II, sometime Nazi industrial boss of the Saar; in Mannheim, Germany. The first industrialist to be convicted of waging aggressive war (1948), Röchling had his seven-year sentence boosted to ten by a French appeals court, was later released in 1951, and barred with his family from entering the Saar or his factories, now French...
...from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor registered pained indignation. "The moment I discovered that [madness]," said Hjalmar Schacht, a Nazi minister without portfolio until 1943, "I separated from him and worked against him. That was in 1938-before the war-and I did that because I saw he wanted...