Word: odin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named for one of the two ravens that, according to Norse mythology, brought to the god Odin the world's news...
...soared over the Pacific last week he may well have remembered Japan's first emissary to the U.S. and Europe. He was Takenouchi, Lord of Shimitsuke, who sailed from Yokohama on the British war ship Odin in January 1862, charged with postponing for five years the opening of Japanese ports to foreign vessels. Takenouchi was successful. Last week world-traveled Saburo Kurusu may have wished that he could regain for Japan the U.S. trade contacts that Takenouchi had postponed. But that was up to Pinch Hitter Kurusu's bosses...
...point program quoted by the Monitor follows the line long sponsored by Jewbaiter Rosenberg and others in the back-to-Odin-worship wing of the Nazi Party. Some of its points...
...miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang of bloodstained, money-making murderers [the Nazis]. . . . Hitler says the whole German people is behind him. I for one am prepared...