Word: wiegand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand. Month before the No. 1 Hearst foreign correspondent had been given an exclusive interview with the No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Hitler, who wanted to get across the idea that the U. S. had nothing to fear from Germany. The story was neither widely published nor widely believed in the U. S. So the No. 2 Nazi now tried his hand at the same...
Somewhere behind the German lines, in a house on whose walls hung quaint pictures of Belgian and French beauties of days gone by, German-American Hearst Writer Karl H. von Wiegand waited one day last week for Hitler. Around him, like suspicious police dogs, gathered the familiar assistants of a Hitler interview: Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop's Lawyer Hewel, Chief of the Propaganda Ministry's Press Bureau Dr. Dietrich, Foreign Office Interpreter Schmidt...
...chasing Karl von Wiegand hoped for a scoop. In 1914 he was rebuked by U. P. for wasting money on a 138-word cablegram-on Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia. Later he had something to say on behalf of Italy in Ethiopia, Japan in China, the Rebels in Spain. He hoped last week that nearly victorious Hitler would have something sensational...
Suddenly a six-wheeled military car dashed up. Adolf Hitler got down from beside the chauffeur. Salutes flashed, heels clicked. The "interview" began: it was a harangue. Brandishing papers on which he had jotted notes in answer to prepared questions, Hitler screamed at Wiegand...
Hearstpapers handled the Wiegand piece with care, and played its headlines way down. Unspectacular also - but devastating - was the press conference comment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "That brings recollections." - e.g., unwanted Austria, disclaimed Sudetenland, renounced Bohemia, Moravia, useless Memel, undesired Poland...