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...think there can be no doubt that Field Marshal Goring himself would have preferred a peaceful solution, but in matters such as these it was Herr Hitler's decision which alone counted; and whatever Field Marshal Goring himself might feel, he was merely the loyal and submissive servant of his master. Moreover, he had come down definitely on the side of Peace a year before and it may have been difficult for him to adopt this course a second time. He invited me, however, to come and see him that (Aug. 30) afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...earth, only they were utterly free to look, listen, judge, speak. Men and women called upon their President to be statesman, peacemaker, warrior. He was none of these. As in no other week since he entered the White House, he was the President of a political democracy, a ruling servant who could safely do no more, go no farther down his chosen road than the people were willing to allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politics in Crisis | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...away lies the once-famous, still beautiful actress Emmy Ritter, convalescent and condemned to death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There is only Anna Hoffman and young Dr. Bitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures in Nazilcmd | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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