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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like countless others, Herr Thyssen saw clearly enough a dangerous revolution in Soviet Russia (he financed the Nazis as a bulwark against Communism), but failed to detect a social upheaval in Germany. The latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox* wrote the first of many pricelessly bad novels at the age of nine in the year of Grant's Wilderness Campaign. One of the last and most notable of her countless poems was Soldiers, Come Back Clean, published by Hearst's New York Journal in the year of the battle of Cambrai. It ran: I may lie in the mud of the trenches, I may reek with blood and mire, But I will control, by the God in my soul, The might of my man's desire...
...Wandering through many lands, touched by many cultures, facing an ever new 'spirit of the age' in his duration through the ages, the Jew has survived in part by virtue of the force and logic of syncretism.* Judaism is an amalgam of countless creeds and cultures held together by the cement of its own native genius...