Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Yalta conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
...gluttonous, shrewd and tough, Believing that evil is an outside job, not part of mankind's nature, he has no compunctions about literally beating the Devil out of people. He bashes a madman with a crucifix, throws "holy" ammonia water in the eyes of an attacker, and makes Hitler abhorrent to a Nazi official through a crude but effective method of behavior modification known as the third degree...
...Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France. His son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, said of him: "I see clearly that while the right hand dealt with grandiose ideas and glory, the left hand...
...every way, the ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...
...wrote. Morley's view of literary power brought the Bartlett's debuts of Dostoevsky, Blake, Conrad and T.S. Eliot, along with four columns of quotes from Morley's own forgettable works. World War II, in turn, made literary power yield to political power. Enter Churchill, Hitler, Douglas MacArthur and the Charter of the United Nations...