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...Frankfurter Zeitung, with the special assignment of covering the National Socialist movement in Munich. He is credited with coining the word "Nazi" - as a term of contempt, because in Bavaria "nazi" was a slang term for a country bumpkin. He "marched" surreptitiously with the Nazis in their beer-hall Putsch, later saw the doors of Landsberg Prison clang behind Hitler. He wrote two of the basic works on Hitlerism: the History of National Socialism and Hitler (TIME, May 25, 1936). Driven under ground by the Gestapo in 1933, he escaped to France in 1935, fought Naziism in books and magazines...
...only dictator (1926-40); suffocated in the burning of his son's house; in Cleveland. Short-bearded, long-mustached Newspaper Editor Smetona was a prime builder of the eastern Baltic's political spillikin-pile. Long an agitator for in dependence from Czarist Russia, he headed a successful putsch against Lithuania's pro-Soviet Russian Socialists in 1926, ten years later dissolved all opposition parties. He fled to the U.S. when Russia took over...
...French Putsch. In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which lies between the bay where St. George slew his dragon and the hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
...tired, taut-eyed Fuhrer and all the lesser fiihrers gathered in a Munich beer cellar to think back to the Putsch that failed just 20 years ago. They had been younger men then, with nothing to lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold...
...will not lack material for oratory if he takes the rostrum on the anniversary of the Munich beer-hall Putsch this week...