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...with Aleutian women, haunted his own "wife" so unmercifully that she threw Baranov's child into the sea. The officers despised Baranov because he was a merchant. Intrigues and revolts were started against him. At last he received the title of Governor and a decoration from the new Emperor, Alexander...
...still talk about India with the imperialist arrogance of 1931, when he said: "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace ... to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor...
...palace with General Charles de Gaulle. Willkie entered the general's columned personal salon in his same blue business suit. De Gaulle, in white dress uniform with his hair plastered like a schoolboy's, was seated before paintings pf Napoleon as a youth and as Emperor and had a pedestaled bust of Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood up, raised his arm dramatically and said; "On matters of moral principle, I, like...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they...
...East for Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack for Living Age, the Japs paid Matheson $500 a month and expenses...