Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Core of Steel." Hermann Rauschning's The Revolution of Nihilism purposed to reveal the Nazis' secret plans for the Third Reich. It obscured almost as much as it disclosed, but occasional clear statements of the Nazis' real aims stood out like moments of nightmare in a some what foggy dream. His new book, The Voice of Destruction, is an evidently hurried transcript of notes on Hitler's private assertions in 1932-34. It may be substantially credited or discounted according to how much distortion the reader sees in Junker Rauschning's solemn retrospective indignation...
...Nazi Germany's greatest gifts to the U. S. is Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while...
...Woodring did get at the main difference between the U. S. Army as it traditionally has been in peacetime, and the Army as Commander in Chief Roosevelt wants it to be from now on. The old Army was a feeble amoeba, unfit even for its theoretical role as the core of a fighting force to be raised after war starts. What is now wanted is an Initial Protective Force (Regular Army plus National Guard), manned, equipped and ready to fight at the drop of an enemy...