Word: pro-german
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...German Nazis and Spanish Fascists, still alert, watch and welcome a trend which they did not create but know how to use. The U.S. will not halt and reverse the trend simply by damning it as "pro-German," "anti-Allied," "Fascist," or even "anti-democratic." The U.S. cue is to understand Latin American nationalism for what it is, channel it to Good Neighborly ends by convincing Latin Americans that they can be for themselves without being against...
Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power...
Bulgaria is a peasant country, whose capital, Sofia, has been called an overgrown village. Bulgarians for the most part are pro-Russian by tradition, provincial by nature, pro-German by decree of persistently pro-German governments. They like Americans (but have had few dealings with them), consider Britain anti-Bulgar. They fear and hate the Turks, who ruled them for five centuries. They think that they have a right to keep lands snatched from Yugoslavia and Greece, but do not want to fight for these territories. In World War II they have found little profit, much distress...
This week newsmen in Istanbul reported that all telephone and telegraph connections with Bulgaria had been severed-but not soon enough to stop reports that the Bulgarian government had fallen. Still in power was the pro-German regency; but it was evident that pokes from Germany's enemies were telling...
...Rhodes Trustees, onetime Swarthmore College president, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., branded the attack as "impertinence" and "an old story." Said he: "It was made in 1916 by George Sylvester Viereck, who has lately incurred Uncle Sam's displeasure for his pro-German activities. . . . The Tribune places under suspicion several signers of the Declaration of Independence.* ... The Tribune publishes a list ... of 49 Rhodes Scholars engaged in civilian war work. It is characteristic of the Tribune's carelessness as to facts that this list should be so short. . . . The truth is that...