Word: bismarckers
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Working as smoothly as their smooth, new planes, the Forty-niners played an important part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. They flew over the Owen Stanley mountains, strafed and dive-bombed on missions of their own, escorted heavy bombers, gave valuable support to ground troops all up the New Guinea coast...
...Hundred Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium...
Three years before Churchill was born, Bismarck made the German Empire Europe's No. 1 power by defeating France. This same year, and as a result of the same war, Paris gave Europe the first example of a new revolutionary political form-the commune or soviet...
...Said Bismarck: "He who controls the Bohemian bastion controls Europe...
...wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world . . . I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther. . . . Lutheranism is essentially German. ... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. . . . The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due. . . . We must hope that the next swing of the pendulum will...