Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a drink of fresh water when you are thirsty. I have no right to say anything more. The voices must come from the other side, from those who clearly see that this is a critical and dramatic hour, from those who realize that the victory of Hitler's Reich would mean the loss of the essential things in their lives. I have heard a now phrase--the defending of something by aid to the Allies. Paris listens with grave emotion...
...British parties are now represented. There was no totalitarian suppression of all parties but one, no totalitarian exaltation of one man as Dictator, no wiping out of the established British press or creation of rubber-stamp Government organs, and no abolition of the trade unions as in the Nazi Reich...
When World War II began, the British cartel cut the Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...
Slavs Next? The Yugoslavs were just as sure they were marked for early Nazification. It took three days last week for a great German force to move through Dresden, reputedly on the way to take up positions in the Reich's Slovak Protectorate from which to invade Hungary or Rumania. Other German forces massed to threaten Yugoslavia, and in the big hotels of Vienna anyone who dropped into conversation with a German officer was confidently assured, "We don't know at just what moment but we are going to march...
...cavalry wheeled their Blitzkrieg harmlessly around the green parks of 8 1 year-old Wilhelm II, who from 1888 to 1918 by the grace of God was German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...