Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing goals, phased in and then phased out as they succeeded gloriously or were abandoned in panic. Back in 1942, when Congress voted funds for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a technical-assistance operation for Latin America, it was only trying to combat pro-Nazi sentiment in Central and South America. Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms, rushed arms and aid to Greece and Turkey...
...Brando into agreeing to a perilous bit of World War II secret agentry. He must find and disarm the demolition charges placed on a German freighter, so that in the event of Allied capture, the Germans will not be able to scuttle their precious rubber cargo. Equipped with forged Nazi credentials and the suavest German accent since Erich von Stroheim. Brando climbs aboard the freighter, captained by Yul Brynner, and loses no time in going on the prowl...
...Communists. Last week, for the first time in 40 years, Malraux was back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact, and he has since embraced a narrower creed: Gaullism...
...ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar Werner) with deadly accuracy: "I've seen all these people before...
...Nazi onslaught caught Chagall in Vichy France, preoccupied with his work. He was loath to leave, even when the Emergency Rescue Committee urged him to come to the U.S. Recalls Varian Fry, the committee's agent, "He wanted to know if there were any cows in America. I assured him that we had not only cows but goats too." "And trees and green grass?" he asked. "We have all that," said Fry. "I told him that New York City was only a part of the U.S. and even there was green grass. Chagall was enormously relieved." Fry rescued...