Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talked for the best part of two hours of the iniquities of the Poles and about Herr Hitler's and his own desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so much of his time. . . . He could scarcely have afforded at such a moment to spare time in conversation if it did not mean that everything down to the last detail was now ready for action...
...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...
...There were, in fact, for Herr Hitler only two solutions: The use of force, or the achievement of his aims by the display of force. 'If you wish to obtain your objective by force, you must be strong; if you wish to obtain them by negotiation, you must be stronger still.' That was a remark which he made to a foreign statesman who visited him this year, and it expresses in the concisest possible form the Hitler technique...
...Beethoven turned out a batch of sonatas for the harpsichord. Today, harpsichord playing occupies the position that falconry does in the field of sports. And most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano. But today's handful of harpsichordists point out the undeniable fact that only they can make this 18th-Century music sound the way it did in the 18th Century...
...usual, critics mourned that the right artists were being honored at the wrong time. More direct cause for mourning came from the fact that this will be the last Carnegie International until the end of World War II. War I stopped the show for six years; Depression...