Word: nazidom
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There was no way last week for the world to know what orders were going to the German front commanders from the tottering, feuding citadel of Nazidom. It was possible that most German commanders were making their own decisions whether to fight, flee or quit. At this climax of the war, it made little difference what they chose...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...
...drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer Night's Dream. As he died his Rosalinda (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus) was entering its second smashing revival year on Broadway...
...sent a message to President Rios hoping that his visit was "merely postponed for a short time." President Ríos thanked President Roosevelt for his message. In the end Sumner Welles's straight talk might prove to have stirred not so much resentment as serious consideration of Nazidom's threat to the hemisphere...
...addition to his financial services to Nazidom, Bormann has made ideological contributions in the field of religion. Recently he told Party leaders: "Trying to produce order at the Vatican is a fault into which we Germans have unfortunately often fallen. . . . From the standpoint of the Reich it would have been most desirable if there had been, not one Pope, but at least two or, if possible, many more. They would have fought one another. The people must be wrested from the churches and their priests. Their influence must be permanently broken in the same way as the harmful influences...