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...Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings of Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity that of the German and Spanish mercenaries of Emperor Charles V in 1527. They came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied for 150,000 ducats in back pay. In a misty May dawn, the Germans and Spaniards breached Rome's walls, ran amuck. They ransacked, burned, profaned, tortured, raped, murdered. The Pope became the Emperor...
Seven years ago a sad-eyed little man in a black cape stood up in Geneva and shamed the statesmen of 50 nations. Italians booed and the rest looked away while Emperor Haile Selassie, dispossessed by Italian arms and mustard gas, cried out for international morality...
...fight this war to a decision means . . . Japan must be so beaten . . . that she will not dare to entertain an aggressive thought for 100 years. This can be done only if a fundamental revolution . . . sweeps away the military caste ... the emperor and the cult of emperor worship...
...shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers he stepped gingerly, grasping each hand with a toothsome smile, letting each go with a look of tight-lipped determination...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...