Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...
...Prince Otto von Bismarck saw what was implicit in Marx more clearly than Marx himself did. He noted the reluctance of Marxists to discuss the nature of the society for which they struggled. Said Bismarck in 1878: "If only I could find out what the future [Marxist] state . . . is like. We can only catch glimpses of it through the cracks. . . . If every man has to have his share allotted to him from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder...
...other retiring veterans, Rodney and Nelson, wore scars from the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. In 1941 the Rodney had come in close under the Germans' guns to be in at the kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without...
...them realized. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees" (he was kudosed by 15 countries, 38 universities). On his first trip to Europe, at 22, Butler was armed with letters to Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. That was only the beginning. "It has been my happy fortune," he wrote later, "to meet, to talk with and often to know in warm friendship almost every man of light and learning during the past half century...
...Cocos yelled: "Bismarck! Tyrant! Dictator! Boche!" They set out to block passage of the law by every parliamentary tactic they could think of. One hundred and twenty Communists made individual speeches. They proposed 250 amendments, each of which had to be voted down by the non-Communist majority. This wrangling went on all night and far into Sunday-for 36 solid hours...