Word: delusional
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As inflation mounts and tempers shorten, as world economic and political crises inexorably reduce our already limited avenues of action. The American public nears a state of vengeful pointing and shouts of "J'accuse." Opinion has not yet singled out the scapegoat from the rogues' gallery of Business or Labor...
Angelic Antics. In this megalomaniac delusion, Goebbels played his usual sycophantic role. One night, as the bombs thundered above them, he read to Hitler from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great. When he had finished, "tears stood in the Führer's eyes" and two horoscopes...
Kremlin's Estimate. For two years after V-E day, the U.S. had lost precious time because it had 1) underestimated the effects of Britain's decline as a force in Europe, and 2) mistakenly counted on Russian cooperation. The end of the British support for Greece (which...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After...
"We should be wholly frank with Russia-say what we mean and mean what we say.. . . That is why we must have, so far as self-serving politicians will permit, a united American foreign policy, supported generally by Republicans and Democrats alike, so there will be no delusion abroad...