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...week was Pastor Martin Niemöller, now in his fifth year in a Nazi concentration camp. In Britain the BBC celebrated his birthday with a German broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
With an eye on the Clausewitz theory that time and space are the underlying factors that govern strategy, Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Ayre Auchinleck had taken plenty of time and space to prepare and deploy his forces for battle...
...While the Popular Front swayed, bush-mustached President Aguirre felt more & more like a man who does not govern but merely presides. He spent more & more time with the red wine he cultivates. Fortnight ago he was reported...
...sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
While the Popular Front swayed, bushy-mustached President Aguirre felt more & more like a man who does not govern but merely presides. He spent more & more time with the red wine he cultivates. Fort night ago he was reported...