Word: nazi
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Legal Stand. In reviewing the history and language of wartime and postwar agreements for the occupation of Nazi Germany, the U.S. memo made two main points...
...West has a perfect legal right to maintain troops in Berlin, and the Soviet Union cannot abrogate that right by any unilateral action. Such privileges as the West claims in Berlin "derive absolutely from the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, and were not granted by, nor negotiated with, the Soviet Union." Nor can the Soviet Union or its East German allies affect the allied rights of access to Berlin, which are "inherent in the rights of the Western powers to be in Berlin." If those rights of access are interfered with, warned the U.S. note, then the Western Big Three...
...being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
Greater Crime. Had not this uncertain student confidently called a former Nazi a "scoundrel" for criticizing Hitler? "This man swore allegiance to the flag," rejoined Eichmann. "I regard violation of loyalty as the greatest crime a man can perpetrate...
...Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more vengeance-driven than the nation, lost the U.N. commission post when Congress neglected to appropriate his salary...