Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from the Aggrandizer...
...nights ago I was in Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the City of Light...
...about Berlin at dawn was to find occasional patrols of Nazi police angrily scrubbing off walls anti-Nazi slogans or posters stuck on during the blackout by the still active underground movement. Presumably the Comintern in Moscow has the names and addresses of the thousands of Communists who, up to the Pact, were determinedly working to overthrow Naziism and betting on war as their best chance. Whether they had quit, or whether they had been turned in by their Moscow bosses, was not apparent. No large numbers of Communists were reported by correspondents to have been seen leaving concentration camps...
...Turks were still hesitating at latest reports but Russians considered it significant that Foreign Minister Saracoglu did something in Moscow which no foreign statesman has ever done before: he laid a wreath on the blood-red marble tomb of Nikolai Lenin in the Red Square...
Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...