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...found again before another Christmas comes. He said: "Ruins all over the world are increasing. Humanity is suffering and we all see this conflict degenerating into something more and more terrible. Reason and spirit seem to be darkened throughout the world. Christ only can deliver humanity. . . . To work, dearest brothers, do not stand idle. Let us start the reconstruction of the world...
Started four months after Pearl Harbor, Expeditionary Force Messages were modeled on the British system, using the same standardized texts-covering 150-odd stock situations. Steady favorites: Numbers 32 and 61, which read, "All my love, dearest" and, "You are more than ever in my thoughts at this time...
...September 1939, as the Panzers clawed across Poland, Adolf Hitler grandiloquized: "I now do not want to be anything but the first soldier of the German Reich. I, therefore, again put on the uniform which once had been most sacred and dearest to me. I will take it off only after victory." Over an unprepared, divided foe, victory that very month seemed near...
...should have lived," Eugenie wrote when she was 17, "a century earlier. The ideas that are dearest to me are now ridiculous. ... I have a mixture of dreadful passions in me. ... I fight against them, but I lose the struggle and in the end my life will end miserably, lost in passion, virtue and foolishness." Eugenie was almost a textbook image of ambitious and dislocated womanhood, tinged with the dread occupational diseases of hysteria and frigidity. But in her flaming devotion to an idea, she was magnificent. Her 93 years were one long, un-flickering act of faith...
...there was more. Mr. Klorfein had an afterthought: "My wife bought some bonds at the Gimbel party, too. How much was it, dearest?" She said it was only $175,000 worth, but "of course, I've been buying war bonds all along...