Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the Congress, the whole thing was a mistake. Chile's party was as unlike Germany's as a sickle is unlike a swastika. The world must remember that 15,000 Nacistas helped elect Chile's Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last October. Henceforth the party name was to be Popular Socialist Vanguard. It would advocate: 1) nationalization of copper, nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world...
...Peruvian] Government's sympathies are intensely fascist," continued Mr. White, "and the Government was furious at the disclosure of German and Italian activities against the Pan-American Conference. On the opening day . . . Lima appeared to be the site of a great Nazi rally. There were literally thousands of swastika flags all over the city. There were only three American flags on the main street, and one of them was at the American Consulate. Also there were more Italian and Japanese flags than there were flags of any South American countries. Throughout the Conference the Government-controlled newspapers used prominent...
What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might...
...mission to Paris ever had a thinner time than Herr Ribbentrop. There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...
...Irvington, N.J., Police Judge Thomas J. Holleran let off with a lecture on "Americanism" two teen-age boys, one of German, the other of Italian descent, who vented their political passions by pen-knifing a swastika on the left forearm of Bernard Cohen...