Word: rhineland
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Carter has been rereading Winston Churchill's history of World War II, studying in particular that part where Hitler moves unchallenged into the Rhineland in 1936. "Nobody sent a clear signal to Hitler," says the President. "War became inevitable. We are not going to let that happen...
...inquiry into the deaths of Andreas Baader, founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, and gang members Gudrun Enselin and Jean Carl Raspe continues in Stuttgart, Germany, this week West German federal police told The New York Times they believe terrorists planted the bomb which shattered a Rhineland village courthouse on Monday...
Kohl, the governor of Rhineland-Palatinate, who campaigned on the slogan "Freedom Instead of Socialism," criticized the government's deficit budgets, welfare programs and detente policies with East Germany...
...Social Democratic retort, fired off by Party Chairman Willy Brandt, is that the Christian Democrats are "oozing arrogance and stupidity with their upper-class attitudes." Schmidt, whose sharp tongue long ago earned him the nickname "the Lip," contemptuously refers to Kohl, who is Minister-President (governor) of the Rhineland-Palatinate, as "the Minister-President of where...
Childhood endowed Ernst with a rich compost of obsessions. His father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole...