Word: pro-german
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...soon left the paper because of its pro-German sympathies and immersed herself in the intellectual and artistic life that flourished around the Cafe de Flore on Paris' Left Bank. Those contacts led to her first walk-on movie parts and, in 1946, to a starring role in Jacques Feyder's Macadam...
...German press is far more reliable and intelligent than much of the U.S. press. It is not so much anti-American as it is pro-German. NATO planning envisions using all of West Germany for a battleground and dumping place for U.S. troops and nuclear weapons; the Germans view this policy with justifiable alarm. America will be getting many rude shocks until it realizes that the cold war is a war that most of the world would gladly...
...sheep farmer. Vorster attended the University of Stellenbosch, a bastion of Afrikaner nationalism, on a scholarship. He studied psychology and law and joined the junior wing of the National Party. In the early years of World War II he helped found the Flaming Ox-Wagon, a militantly anti-British, pro-German nationalist movement. Vorster was arrested by the pro-British government in 1942 and spent 14 months in an internment camp...
Lurking outside Gestapo headquarters one evening, Lucien is discovered, hustled inside and questioned. With the same lack of remorse or thought that he had given the bird, he informs on a local schoolmaster who is a Resistance leader. Now, Lucien finds, he is suddenly and eminently acceptable to the pro-German Vichy regime's police. One of the collaborating cops, in fact, is a childhood hero of Lucien's, a champion bicycle racer. If the German side is good enough for such an idol, then it is good enough...
...bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat was betrayed by a belly dancer and arrested. Israelis frequently cite Sadat's pro-German sympathies during World War II as proof of his implacable anti-Jewish feelings. Actually, Sadat collaborated with the Nazis primarily because they were the enemies of his enemy: the British, who then occupied Egypt...