Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafra's General Ojukwu While we do not take the Ibos as enemies, we are enemies of evil. Anybody who is the embodiment of evil, of course, will be an enemy. This man [Ojukwu], fighting total war with Nigeria, is a typical Hitler, and he will fight with everything he has in hand. He does not mind killing, eliminating, destroying anything to achieve...
...Inside. Pegler's career as a columnist ended in 1962 after he told a right-wing group in Tulsa that his Hearst bosses were censoring his columns in "a coercion as nasty and snarling as Hitler's." When Hearst, in effect, fired him, Pegler turned to writing for the John Birch Society journal, but quit when even Robert Welch rejected some of his articles...
...feels passionately about things, wants to rid the world of evil, etc. We hate the famous War in Vietnam, and we take various kinds of dope, and most of all we are full of energy and idealism. Yes. Of course, at times our zeal is misdirected (as, alas, was Hitler's). At times, we want things too fast, too much (this being a product of our childhood, of course, since our parents grew up in the depression, then made it, then wanted to give us all the advantages, etc.) But, alas again, we must realize that the world out there...
...Tilea, Rumanian minister in London, was encouraged, probably by a Tory foreign affairs expert, to believe that his country was next on Hitler's list. This fear, passed on to Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, stirred the somnolent British Cabinet to diplomatic action, which took the form of a mutual-defense pact with Poland...
...Versailles Treaty did not even succeed in constraining Germany. The Allies developed such intense feelings of guilt about it that when, in the 1930s, Hitler began his reconquest of territory, they felt he was only redressing Germany's wrongs. Post-World War I Germany, as Watt makes clear, served as a most chilling example, very relevant today, of what happens when ruthless poltics are freely practiced: polarization; violence that feeds upon itself; final rule by savagery. Whether it comes from left or right makes little difference to he victims...