Word: attacke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first point of attack, Marshall chose Russia's refusal to say clearly what she considered to be "German assets in Austria." The Potsdam conference of July 1945 agreed that Russia could have German assets in Austria. For two years the Red Army has been seizing as German assets anything it felt like, without giving the Allies a specific list of properties. Some of the properties grabbed by the Russians as German assets really belong to Austrians, in the U.S.-British view. Said Marshall: "Exactly what is it the Soviet Union wants from Austria? What properties, interests or values? . . . Both...
...other deterrent was more sophisticated. It was called UNESCO; it was composed of leading intellectuals from all over the world, and it was designed to attack war at its roots, "in the minds of men." Through science and education and propaganda, it was to divert the aggressive instincts, fears, prejudices which make men fight...
...Hitler wanted to launch an attack [on France] with all possible speed and recklessness. But he was hindered by the fact that he had taken a public position against the bombing of open cities...
...order to free himself from this encumbrance, the first step in this merciless attack [on open cities] had to be attributed to the enemy. This could be done only by staging a fake attack on an open German city. For this purpose Freiburg [was] particularly suitable...
...says flatly: "All creative writers are hypochondriacs . . . all creative writers are nervous"), Shelley was long obsessed with the conviction that he had tuberculosis. Once, overcome by the thought that he had caught elephantiasis from a lady with thick legs, he fell on the floor and writhed with an imagined attack of the disease. On another occasion he had a hallucination that he had seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm...