Word: delusionals
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The effects of the Black Death* had not yet subsided, and the graves of millions of its victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany . . . and excited the astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries. . . . It was called the dance of St. John or of St...
"They have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by hard, tough fighting, that it will hurt somebody; and no headway is going to be made while this delusion lasts."
To America André Chéradame says: the size of the Americas favors invasion. With Fifth Column help Germany could land an air force in the Americas and establish a base from which she could be dislodged only by a superior air force. "In order to see things as...
The U.S. start in World War I was excruciatingly slow. The nation, living under the delusion that each war was the last, came unprepared, as usual, into another.
Meanwhile the intellectuals, refugees once more in their lonely remodeled farmhouses in Connecticut and the Berkshires, thought it over. Comrade Hicks, who had been closest to the Party, knew most about it, thought Communism was daily growing more like fascism. Waldo Frank, who claims that he fellow-traveled under the...