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...almost a million visitors. Crowds were so thick that few got a good look at the paintings. U.S. Army officials had planned, and promised, to ship the whole show back to Germany as soon as it closed. General Lucius Clay insisted their prompt return would be proof that one conqueror was not a looter. Several Congressmen were equally insistent that more Americans should be allowed to see the paintings. Last week the Army worked out a Solomonic compromise...
...thought the man was Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), who deserted Athens for its enemy Sparta, deserted Sparta to return to Athens. He was "the greatest demagogue of all time," said the President. "We are now facing the same danger to this country. ... If imitators of that ancient Greek conqueror want to see its liberties subverted, he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country...
...great captains of World War II, who had ruled the conquered Japanese, most of his countrymen assumed, with justice and magnanimity. If this remoteness was a political handicap, it was also a potential asset which could be realized if MacArthur chose to come and receive his conqueror's welcome...
...fatal illness of William the Conqueror, who died on Sept. 9, 1087, was finally diagnosed last week. After studying the records, Frances Tomlinson Gardner of the University of California Medical School's department of medical history and bibliography decided that the man who conquered England was conquered by peritonitis. Previous historians had been content with vague references to "internal injuries...
Patton's awareness of military history crops up constantly. Before the Normandy invasion he read Freeman's Norman Conquest to check on the roads used by William the Conqueror in Normandy and Brittany. He was the only one of his staff who knew that captured Regensburg was the Ratisbon of Napoleonic fame. The Melun crossing of the Seine, he noted, was the same used by Labienus with his Tenth Legion about...