Word: pro-german
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Annie broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour program each night, using the call letters Nachtsender 1212. The program included authentic war reports, accurate pictures of life at the front and at home, Viennese waltzes and German folk songs. The station pretended to be inside the Reich, also warmly pro-German, sadly and desperately honest about every lost Nazi position. For Nazi field commanders, it was often the only way to learn how things were going...
...three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...
...father's favorite penitentiaries. When correspondents found her there last week, she pouted and protested: "I had the misfortune to be born in politics . . . but I have never been mixed up in politics." The Countess eased her light blue slacks, glanced at the bright blue sea. "I was pro-German at the beginning . . . [but] I never worked for the Germans." She puffed vigorously on an American cigaret. "I want to live the rest of my days on a small island like an ordinary woman...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...
...nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...