Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under the shallow camouflage of national defense, fascism now comes to Morningside Heights. Not the open brutal kind made famous by Adolf Hitler, but fascism nonetheless. Herr Hitler says that those who do not conduct themselves for the advancement of National Socialism will be exterminate. Dr. Butler phrases it somewhat more subtly (perhaps that is the advantage of a college education): "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should . . . withdraw...
...cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long table slopped with spilt beer and wine, and strewn with cigar and cigarette butts, broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled...
...elegant, wealthy, bald-headed Mr. Bullitt, who had seen Paris fall. No one doubted that his words had first been well weighed by Mr. Roosevelt. But never before had a U. S. Ambassador, a member of the Administration, been permitted to talk on international affairs with such undiplomatic, brutal bluntness. Mr. Bullitt minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall not even need to destroy them one by one. Selfishness and lack of foresight...
Last Saturday night 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve soldiers wound up the first week of the Army's greatest peacetime maneuvers and went to town to act like brutal soldiery on their night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...United Automobile Workers in convention assembled damned Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain as "brutal dictatorships," for the first time put the great C. I. O. union on record against both Communists and Nazis...