Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said. "When you base a proposition on a deal ... an illegal and immoral deal . . . you are destroying that very moral prestige of the [United Nations]." Tsiang paused. "This is a difficult moment for me," he said, then in German repeated Martin Luther's defiant apology to the Reichstag in Worms in 1521: "I cannot do otherwise...
...dignity back to all those I fight with." In the 1930s, the Communists claimed Malraux as their own. Malraux wrote a pro-Communist novel (Days of Wrath), went to Moscow several times, with Gide carried a protest to Hitler against the conviction of Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitrov for the Reichstag fire...
...election in 1932, Walter Reuther was fired by Ford. He and his brother Victor withdrew their savings (some $900) just before the 1933 bank closing and sailed on a world "tour of social engineering." The brothers got to Berlin just in time to see Hitler's Reichstag fire. In eleven months they bicycled through ten countries, sleeping at farms and youth hostels, visiting mines and factories-"studying life," said Walter. They got visas to Soviet Russia and worked for 16 months with other Americans and foreigners at the American-built automobile plant at Gorky, on the Volga River...
...glanced up from my copy of the Kurier, to se the ruins of the Reichstag far to the right. Two more stops to East Berlin. It was about time to get rid of the paper: I had been warned that being seen with a West Berlin newspaper across the border could mean at least a night in jail. So I stuffed the sheets deep under the wooden bench...
Editor Bretscher in 1933 dispassionately analyzed the Nazis' destructive aims. N.Z.Z. was finally banned in Germany altogether when it printed an article saying it was common knowledge that the Reichstag fire was started by Göring, not by the Communists. (The German government continued to buy 200 copies of the paper a day for its own information...