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Auloch was the only hero the Nazis had to extol in all the Normandy-Brittany campaign and they made the most of him. Berlin recited his final message to Adolf Hitler: "Further resistance had to cease as a result of lack of food." It trumpeted the Führer's reply: "Your name will go down in history forever...
...nation, if, instead of giving honor to God, we exalt human ideas above God and extol the powers of this world as though they were all-powerful...
Like everyone else, the French legislators had found freedom of the press easier to extol than to define. Looking back into France's history for memories of that liberty, they could find examples of the best and the worst...
...Lightship, which had fancy premieres simultaneously in three large London theatres, they extol British courage in a salty, moving account of the bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship in the North Sea. This one also shows what Blitzkrieg has done to British film censorship. During the attack on the lightship a gnarled seaman crouching on the open deck looks up at a Heinkel raking the ship with machine-gun fire, spits out: "The dirty bastards...
...been for him, the Court's 150th birthday might have been completely overlooked. With patriotic satisfaction Congressman Bloom heard Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Charles A. Beardsley of Oakland, Calif., president of the American Bar Association, and Chief Justice Charles Evans ("Zeus") Hughes extol the sesquicentenarian Court. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "It is the unique function of this Court not to dictate policy, nor to promote or oppose crusades, but to maintain the balance between States and Nation through the maintenance of the rights and duties of individuals. ... At the end of 150 years, this tribunal still stands...