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...sound reasoning had to start with the axiom that Russian papers never publish explosive stories without a purpose. Two plausible-and contradictory-purposes were suggested for this one: 1) Moscow wished to prepare Russians and the world outside for a peace move at Britain's expense-by asserting, in advance, that Britons were scoundrels, concocting a scheme to double-cross Russia; 2) Moscow actually thought that as the Red Army's sustained lunge carried it closer & closer to Central Europe, the ghosts of Munich might regain their onetime influence, persuade the English-speaking Allies to compromise...
...operates one of the biggest and last great open shops in the U.S. Union leaders make no secret of their alarm. Douglas' attitude is direct, as usual. On his desk sits a small pottery model of a skunk, which many visitors instantly link mentally with the colloquial axiom: "Never get in a squirting match with a skunk." It is said that when visitors mention labor problems to him, he merely points at the skunk...
Prussian military science made one-front war an axiom. Otto von Bismarck never deviated from the axiom and thereby gained an empire. Wilhelm II disregarded it and thereby lost the empire. Adolf Hitler based his strategy on it. Now, fretting over the map of beleaguered Europe, the Führer could see how completely his plans for one-front war had been thwarted...
Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
...Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march...