Word: clausewitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...himself in what looked like the nattiest role of his career (see cut). His long-planned comedy about a Bluebeardish M. Verdoux who marries and murders for money (leading lady: Martha Raye) would finally be out in March, and Producer-Actor Chaplin was moved to a program note: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; M. Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." Bessie Love, sweet-faced young thing of the silents, complained that her ex-husband, Producer William B. Hawks, had fallen down on his support payments, sued...
...measure found its defenders. Said one U.S. official: "At least the Germans won't be able to read Clausewitz these long summer nights." Said a Russian: "If more of them were out ploughing fields instead of reading, there would be more food." But most observers condemned the order as a piece of unenforceable foolishness which would only increase interest in the verboten books, and martyrize Germany's nationalistic spirit...
...continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means.-von Clausewitz...
Countess, Clausewitz & Tsar. Hornblower's new job was no less than to persuade Russia, Sweden and Prussia to join the war against Napoleon. The best way to persuade them, Hornblower decided, was to show the neutrals what the Royal Navy could do. French warships were soon frantically scuttling to safety. When they kept to the open sea, Hornblower's seamanship outmaneuvered them, his broadsides raddled them; when they holed up in neutral ports, Hornblower's bomb-ketches lay outside and .lobbed immense mortars onto their decks...
Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...