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...enormous extent of the President's memory impresses me," says Morris. On almost any subject from the past half-century that Morris has raised, Reagan has had an observation based on firsthand experience: the Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the rise of fascism, name it. Nothing escapes Morris' scrutiny. He has become convinced, for instance, that that lush, indestructible head of dark hair plays a part in the imagery of perpetual Reagan youth and thus in his remarkable leadership...
...Vladimir Putin said last week, "the triumph of civilization over fascism." In Russia, May 9 marks the 60th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany - an event that in Western Europe is marked the day before - and Russia is going all out to celebrate. Leaders, from U.S. President George W. Bush to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, are expected to come to Moscow for a military parade in Red Square, flyovers by World War II-era fighter planes and, organizers promise, a "stupendous" fireworks display. But for security reasons, ordinary Muscovites are not invited; instead, they've been encouraged...
Life has been troublesome too for Erich Honecker, 72, the East German leader. After decades of unrelenting East bloc propaganda that described "the spirit of militarism and fascism" as a purely Western affliction, Honecker has tried to steer a more nationalist course, chiefly on cultural and historical issues. King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor," have been restored to grace in East German schoolbooks. In 1983, East Germany celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, who is now described as "an initiator of a great revolutionary movement." The celebration underlined Honecker...
British Historian Anthony Mockler calls his book Haile Selassie's War because it thrusts the wily, ambitious little (5 ft. 4 in.) Emperor onto center stage as the noble foe of Fascism. In fact, the war began almost 40 years earlier, when an imperial army of 16,000 Italians engaged the forces of the Ethiopian Emperor Men-elik II at the Battle of Adowa and suffered a humiliating defeat...
...documentary spirals wildly to both the deeply individual and personal—one woman’s decision to quit her job; a father’s disapproval of his profit-minded son—and the staggeringly broad—the rights of laborers; the aftermath of fascism; and the costs of globalization...