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...east are Afghanistan, a hair-triggered zone of worry to British India, and Baluchistan, western gateway to British India itself. Whichever warring side gains a foothold in Iran can jump off into any of these vital sectors...
...still quiet, and Lee cried out: "What can detain Longstreet? He ought to be in position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion in the Union line, the full assault on the main Union position the next day-Pickett's charge-might not have been a disastrous failure. It might never have been necessary...
Peace by Persuasion? If that Army is destroyed, German domination of the continent will be complete. Even if British land power maintains its slippery foothold in Africa and the Middle East, there will be no power but Germany left in Continental Europe. Little imagination was needed, therefore, to foresee a Hitler peace drive if Russia is beaten-a peace drive ending, if Hitler has his way, in a 1941 Munich settlement...
...Personally, I find many Jews most beguiling," he conceded. "I have no grudge against any individual Jew, but collectively they are bringing ruin wherever they get a foothold. . . . Roosevelt is surrounded by Jews and is carrying out the Jewish plan enunciated by the Jews long ago for the world's domination. ... I would like to match my two children [at present 12 and 16] from the standpoint of character, now that they have studied seven years here, with any pair of youngsters their age produceable at home. If their views of life are to be credited to this system...
...Wants Peace? At no time since the war began have peace rumors been so well supported by cold logic as they were last week. Hitler held Europe. With France under his control (see p. 27), he held sway over northwest Africa, had a foothold in the Near East. Peace would be fine for Hitler-peace with the status quo. It would give him time to consolidate his conquests, to build a navy, to soften up new worlds to conquer...