Word: pro-nazi
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Friendship was slightly strained in the early part of World War II when many Brazilians, among them Dutra (then Minister of War), were so impressed by the Nazi war machine that they were accused of being pro-Nazi. They shucked such views after Pearl Harbor and for the rest of the war, as in World War I, Brazil stood with...
Died. Prince Harald of Denmark, 72, brother of Norway's King Haakon VII and uncle of Denmark's King Frederik IX, husband of Princess Helena (expelled, after Denmark's liberation, for her pro-Nazi activities); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
Colonel Gordon E. Textor, a West Pointer with no newspaper experience, started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...
Parties & Outlooks. Almost the first official act of the government last June was to release Sydney Robey Leibbrandt and others convicted of pro-Nazi agitation and anti-war activities during World War II (TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister...
Most important of the four was Dr. Georges Benoit Montel, 49, who helped to run the city of Annecy for the Vichy regime and stridently mouthed Vichy's pro-Nazi propaganda. He got into Canada two years ago posing as Dr. Lacroix, quickly got a job at Laval University. When Montel confessed his illegal entry, Dominion authorities (following almost invariable practice) ordered him deported...