Word: prussianize
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...Japs try to vichyate the Filipinos, a counterpart of Vichy's Marshal Pétain might be found. There is, for instance, 72-year-old General Emilio Aguinaldo, national Filipino hero who led a bloody insurrection against the U.S. army of occupation in 1899. Erect, small, Prussian-haired General Aguinaldo bears no love for Manuel Quezon, has more than once had reason to accuse his people of ingratitude. Said General Aguinaldo, just a year ago: "The Japanese have great respect for the Filipino people and much sympathy...
...tunics. They have no sweaters or only light ones and standard, unlined German service boots. Often they have no gloves. Sometimes they wear women's skirts or little pink and white striped jumpers or wool panties drawn over their trousers. All that is bad for the prim Prussian morale. The first thing that many Muscovites do in the morning is to rush to the thermometer and joyously call to their families: 'Twenty below; good for the Germans...
Died. Hanns Kerrl, 54, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs; in Berlin. As Prussian Minister of Justice in 1933-34 he introduced the crime of "race treason"-mixing Jewish and "Aryan" blood. He was made Minister of Church Affairs in 1935, given the job of bringing the churches under full State control. He failed, and most of his power was taken from...
Paul Ludwig von Kleist is a man of great pride. He comes of a noble Pomeranian family, the most famous of whom was Germany's great classical dramatist, Wilhelm von Kleist. He boasts 36 ancestors who held the rank of general in Prussian and Pomeranian Armies. And last week Colonel General Paul Ludwig von Kleist could boast that he himself was the first German general to be pushed around by the Russians in World...
Made up of the military clique, Prussian Junkers, industrialists, and many men in the fields of education and justice, this same minority has been responsible for both World Wars, the sabotage of the post-war Republic, and the rise of Hitler, he explained. Their destruction, and the nationalization of Germany's essential industries, are prerequisites to any reconstruction, stated Pol, who has recently written a book on this subject...