Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy and Albania. Noticeably absent in the diplomatic box were the Ambassadors of the U. S., Britain, France, Soviet Russia, whose countries vigorously disapproved of the Albanian annexation. Conspicuous was a distinguished visitor, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and wild cheers greeted his entrance. In a box at the right sat 120 Albanian "Sons of the Eagle," come to hand their country over to Italy. They, too, were cheered, and they answered with the Fascist salute...
...anxious question of "Will there be war in Europe?" the right answer early this week could be given only by those who knew what was in the mind of Adolf Hitler. Among the few Nazi higher-ups who should have known the Führer's mind (who as usual kept all he knew discreetly to himself) was a man named Heinrich Himmler. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, State Councillor of Prussia, deputy of the Reichstag, Herr Himmler is better known for two other far more important titles: Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (the famed, black-uniformed...
...suit of many another nation and asked restless Revolutionary Léon Trotsky to leave its shores, Mexico's famed Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to Mexico. Muralist Rivera's young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto to the world...
Wouldst know what's right and what is wrong...
...more than 150 years [the illusion of equality] has served to delude the masses. . . . The idea that an individual as a matter of right and regardless of his qualifications should be able to participate in determining any and every question which may catch his fancy . . . seems to me to qualify the term democracy for classification as an illusion...