Word: shirer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking comment on the interest which the profession has in the fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...
...there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground and To the Bitter End, a history of the German plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters. In End of a Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer warned that the Germans hoped to get even for defeat when the U.S. and Russia squared off. Unlike his first Diary, Shirer's latest was stuffed with news gone stale...
...Shirer's comment on this is ". . . mad ... a magnificent resume of all that has gone through [Hitler's] diseased mind." Actually, it is a clear statement...
Germany's Chance. A minor street incident six years later helped convince Shirer that Germany still dreamed. Shirer, picking his way through ruined Berlin, saw two Russian soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along...
...Shirer's book is at its best when it quotes from captured diaries and secret memoranda. It is poorest when he fills it with infuriatingly personal and flat comments on yesterday's news ("Second thoughts on Potsdam : It is a milestone in history"). He writes much as he broadcasted,* with a strong accent on emotion. Even the most devoted admirers of the late President Roosevelt will find a long entry on F.D.R.'s death a bit on the sticky side...