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...master of-most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th-century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition...
Skeptical scientists, baffled by the whole affair, were inclined to dismiss the fireballs as an illusion, perhaps an afterimage of light which remained in the pilots' eyes after they had been dazzled by flak bursts...
...historians' mature comment on a U.S. liberalism which often claims them as forebears. With a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm they write about a U.S. foreign policy based on "shadowy plans for a world order and for enforcing the four freedoms throughout the world." With half-concealed asperity they dismiss the notion that the New Deal represented a fundamental attack on poverty. They make a partial defense of Whipping Boy Herbert Hoover. Write the Beards: "President Hoover accepted no defeatist philosophy while this terrible depression harrowed the nation. . . . But Democratic tactics in the House of Representatives were principally confined...
...true friend, has been my unflinching supporter among the German officer corps. . . . May Dietl's attitude stand forth as a shining example for many German officers and generals. . . . May they learn to radiate faith, to inspire confidence in any circumstances, especially in times of crisis. May they dismiss any thought that our struggle, behind which is the fanaticism of the entire nation, could end otherwise than victoriously, no matter how the situation might look just...
...Jones ruling seemed certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court. Meantime it will be difficult for New Dealers to dismiss Judge Jones as a crusty reactionary. He was appointed to the Federal bench by Franklin Roosevelt-on the recommendation of Pennsylvania's 1,000% New Dealing Senator Joe Guffey...