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...without depressing the President, to whom his report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week's end: "It would be very tragic if we had to detour into that sort of fundamental conflict between the Legislature and the Executive. But I see no insuperable conflict between them − unless the Fourth-Term dynasty has ideas...
...ever since have found a distinctively German world-view from which even intellectuals like Thomas Mann are not entirely free. But Viereck has added something new and solid to this rather debatable conception of German history. He has found in the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century both a detour from the main path of Western rationalism and the roots of Nazi philosophy. Romanticism, Viereck believes, is the expression of maladjustment. Whatever its various forms, whether Thoreau or Schlegel, Romanticism is the rebellion of those who can't solve their problems in the forms society prescribes. Ardent seekers after...
...after a base, 1,600 miles from Singapore, that could be another link in a chain around the Philippines, through the Mandated Islands, from Tokyo to Singapore. If the Japanese could grab it, while they also set themselves up in North Borneo, they would have a fairly well-protected detour around the submarine-guarded narrows in the South China...
...that flight the Cuba made a 3,300-mile hop across the South Atlantic, added on an 800-mile detour around bad weather and landed with gas in its tanks...
...found a taxicab and ordered the driver to go to the Hotel Majestic. Five times on the way the driver had to detour around tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. The driver kept muttering: "Against the people! Against the people!" He thought the tanks and the guns and the soldiers were there to suppress demonstrations against the Axis. Correspondent Brock thought...