Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Defense Commissioner Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen held a press conference in Washington last week. He blushed. He dazed 30-odd reporters by calling them "Sir" and "Madam." At ease, his huge body hunched comfortably in his chair, he handled himself as adroitly as Franklin Roosevelt at his best. He also gave the best report to date on the state and prospects of production for U. S. Defense. Knudsen's prime points...
With special loudspeakers blaring out an account of the proceedings for those unable to see, the Führer appeared on the balcony of the Chancellery. Waving to the throngs in the Wilhelm-Platz below, he turned to the Nazi leaders around him, talked, laughed, poked them in the ribs. Only after several minutes of horse play did he turn to the crowd, grinning and waving some more...
...Died. Wilhelm Stekel, 72, refugee Viennese psychoanalyst, wayward disciple of Sigmund Freud, author of Nervous Anxiety States, Sadism and Masochism; in London...
...Hitler gazed at the monument, then walked slowly down the avenue 200 yards to the clearing. He wore a double-breasted, grey field uniform with the Iron Cross hanging from his left breast pocket. Behind him walked the six highest officials of the German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral...
...around Tangier were internationalized in 1904 when France and Spain partitioned Morocco. The U. S. joined 26 other nations in the Act of Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the U. S. is represented in the international assembly which legislates for Tangier and the U. S. Consul is a member of the governing Committee of Control...