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...this work it developed that the Greeks and Romans were actually Nordics -just as, when it later became convenient, Doktor Rosenberg pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...
...Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...
When we were much younger we had the enlightening experience of reading a book about a Yalie named Frank Merriwell. The climax of the volume came when lithe, brave, dauntless, handsome Merriwell snagged a 60-yard pass out of the hands of a pair of burly Harvard men and ran ninety-nine yards for a touchdown to win the game for an underdog Eli eleven. The crowd cheered and young ladies swooned and we put down the book and decided not to spend our collegiate career, in New Haven...
...mind our way of life is purely on the defensive. If so, then the prospect of victory is a relapse into the blindness, the cowardice and the stupidity that brought us to our present pass. Then, indeed, Britain is an elderly and declining nation, making one last brave spasm of resistance before it yields to those who are younger and stronger...
Pinch-faced, monocled Louis Marlio, while he saw great hopes for aluminum, saw "no foreseeable peacetime market" for magnesium, wanted these brave new plants scrapped. Mr. Marlio was also discouraging on the subject of post-war "national [industry] councils" to be set up for planning purposes. "I have seen the same thing in Italy," he said. "At the beginning . . . the scheme was good and very liberal . . . but after two years the Government representative was head of the industry...