Word: pro-german
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...fearless idealism nearly scuttled the paper. Fed up with the pro-Kaiser sympathies of many of Milwaukee's German-born, which persisted even after the U.S. entered World War I, the Journal began to translate and publish verbatim reports of anti-U.S. speeches delivered at pro-German meetings. Circulation plummeted but the Journal kept grimly on. It won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign, and eventually found new readers to replace the ones it had lost...
...least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing to declare themselves pro-German. Liberated at war's end by the British, the Perleas went to Italy. Jonel eventually got a job conducting at La Scala, Milan...
Obsessed with his ideal, Abetz convinced himself that the "reasonable and peaceful elements" in Naziism would help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...
...French have protested this decision violently. Charles de Gaulle has stated clearly that he would prefer to junk the Marshall Plan entirely, rather than have the Ruhr in German hands. French Communist claims that "pro-German cartelsympathizers" have put the deal across now look all too correct to non-Communists in both France and the world outside. The Queuille government has also expressed dismay, but in a necessarily feebler tone, since it is trying to work in harmony with the other Western nations. Battered by left and right, the French government has been gravely embarrassed, and its shaky grasp...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...