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Said Columnist Hugh S. Johnson: "Such a move would be in accord with the President's high idealism but ... we could not possibly enter another of these colossal games of international strip poker without losing something." Said Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "Some of [the President's] weaknesses are again revealed: lack of realism and often faulty judgment ... a tendency to wishful thinking and a belief that saying something persuasively enough might make...
...Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash the good news to his Government. Paris afternoon papers were the most friendly to Germany in months. In effect a kiss of diplomatic accord had been given by Aryan Hitler to Jew Blum, and that was news at which every lover of Peace rejoiced...
Second result was that, in prompt accord with Gresham's Law (bad money drives out good), nobody paid for anything in "real" money if he had Aberscrip to spend...
Rosenberg: "The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's] theological hair-splitting." Göring (in a speech abusing the Church): "We [Nazis] have informed the Church that we stand on the basis of positive Christianity." Thus increasingly the Nazi Party imposes on Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party...
...gathered in Whitehall to see him lay a wreath on the Cenotaph honoring Britain's War dead. With dogged British grit they waited all morning and all afternoon until finally dispersed by a thunderstorm. All through the day Haile Selas sie had been demanding that the Foreign Office accord him "official permission" to lay the wreath which meanwhile drooped and withered in his hallway. Captain An thony Eden's subordinates had kept insisting all day that His Majesty should merely apply to Scotland Yard for whatever protection he might think he needed in laying a wreath...