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...mood, Mussolini would defend all his sedulous aping of the Nazis on the ground that "Italy will never be sufficiently Prussianized." In another, he would harbor black, if fanciful, designs against his ally: "I shall combine the whole world into a coalition against Germanism. And we shall crush Germany for at least two centuries." What irked the Italians most was that they were treated as silent partners of the Axis, and only called in when matters reached the sign-on-the-dotted-line stage. After the Austrian Anschluss, "the Duce was in a mood of irritation with the Germans . . . they...
...Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time, but I have never seen anything like this...
...believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced only misery for white and black alike . . . Take a step toward the future; don't wait for it to overwhelm and crush...
...adrift and disgruntled, the Mad Major developed a crush on Adolf Hitler and peddled Nazi propaganda in England. Later he repented and served, a tired old retread, in the Royal Navy. Last week, lonely, broke and 61, he made something of a comeback...
Crimson ruggers emerged from Easter vacation competition in Bermuda with only one loss, to a British Navy team called the Wanderers. The Wanderers went on to crush both Yale and Montreal's Westmount club, and earn the reputation in Bermuda papers of being "the finest team ever to play in Bermuda or the United States...