Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler had fancied himself in a dual role: as an artist destined to remake the world, and as an Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
Cheers & Jeers. Ernie landed a haymaker. "If ever there was a class act, it was this one." The rafters rang with Labor cheers. Bevin's jowls quivered with anger and excitement. Ignoring the Speaker, he yelled at Tories across the aisle: "You deliberately endeavored to destroy the economic and political power of the working man. You would do it again if you had the chance...
...Conspired "to undermine . . . neighboring countries in order to destroy their collaboration with the Allies" and to bring them into a pro-Axis bloc...
...Commonwealth and the United States during the war. There was no compact or elaborate treaty between them. They were bound only in loyalty to a common idea of liberty. . . . That union still exists and will have to be maintained. But ... if we try to write it down we will destroy the spirit...
Conclusion: "The manuscript, the roll, the tablet [precursors of books] have often come through centuries. . . . The book and the library have been respected and safeguarded, even in war, as the very corporate mind of society. In 1939, society . . . turned upon itself and deliberately strove to destroy . . . that mind. It succeeded in a large measure...