Word: swastikaed
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...spoken well of authority and soldiering must be a fascist. As he had ignored critics all his life, Kipling ignored this too. About the only notice he took of Hitler was to remove the Indian good-luck sign from new editions of his work -a swastika...
Died. Theodor Cardinal Innitzer. 79, Archbishop of Vienna, Roman Catholic Primate of Austria since 1932, who was rebuked (1938) by Pope Pius XI for trying to appease the Nazis; of a heart attack; in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer had the swastika raised over Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral when the Nazis marched into Austria in March 1938, discovered too late that his go-it-soft policies did not save Austrian Catholicism...
Died. Walter Riehl, 73, Austrian founder of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which was first (1918) to use the swastika as a party emblem, was one of the splinter groups later welded by Hitler into the Nazi movement; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
...sacked from his post as Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine after he and Lady Russell tried to drive their car through a procession of German villagers, and got manhandled in the attempt. Shortly afterwards Lord Russell started work on The Scourge of the Swastika, a legalistic account of the gas ovens and crematoria of the concentration camps. As a matter of courtesy, Russell sent the completed man uscript to his boss, 72-year-old Lord Simonds, the Lord High Chancellor. Instead of winning the expected perfunctory approval, his book became the subject of anxious...
Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp...