Word: german
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...problem is far more complicated than that, as any scientist who has tried merely to determine the biological races has discovered. Among the first to try was the German zoologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1775. On the basis of physical characteristics, he saw five human subspecies or races-a term possibly deriving from the Arabic rds (beginning). Blumenbach divided humans into races that he called Caucasian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Ethiopian (black), American (copper) and Malay (brown...
...Gargoyle, Harvard German Club, Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Harvard Glee Club, Hasty Pudding, H-R Hillel Society, H-R Hispania Society, H-R International Relations Council, The Island, II Circolo Italiano of H-R, Ivy Films Research, Inc., Keystone Movies, The Krokodilos...
Bucolic Virtues. Morgenthau labeled as a fallacy the argument of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson and such State Department planners as Dean Acheson that Europe's economic health depended on German industrial production. By closing down the Ruhr and Saar, he argued, the Allies could revive the flagging industry of France, Belgium and Britain. As for the millions of Germans who would be left unemployed by such moves, Morgenthau said: "Sure, it is a terrific problem. Let the Germans solve it. Why the hell should I worry about what happens to their people?" As a farmer, Morgenthau firmly believed...
Morgenthau's plan, extreme as it was, forced other Administration thinkers-including a reluctant and obviously ailing F.D.R.-to give serious thought to the shape of postwar Germany. At the Quebec Conference in September 1944, Morgenthau got F.D.R. to win concessions from Churchill on a harsher German policy. Then the politics of the 1944 presidential campaign entered the equation...
Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...