Word: reale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas' Swiss Avenue wanted to seem unappreciative or lacking in real Yuletide spirit, but, the neighbors pleaded, the plain fact was that the thing had become a nuisance...
...started a couple of years ago when Homer Snowden decided it was a shame that Christmas had become so commercial. "People are forgetting the story of Christ's birth and the real meaning of Christmas," said Homer, a Texan through & through, a millionaire wildcatter, and as determined a Christian as ever wore cowboy boots...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...long years of devoted service to Socialism, Otto Grotewohl had never been a real big shot. But when the Russians moved into Germany, they seized on Grotewohl as a handy tool in their drive to capture the German Socialist Party. In a big shot's place at last, Grotewohl presided over the 1946 "merger" of the Eastern zone's Socialist and Communist parties into the new Socialist Unity Party, which meant in fact Grotewohl's complete surrender to the Reds...
...party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians ran the show and made the decisions. The real boss of the puppet government was Grotewohl's "deputy," ruthless veteran Communist Walter Ulbricht...