Word: hitler
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...with F.D.R. was over U.S. recognition of Russia-"a regime which refuses to acknowledge the sanctity of international obligations." When Russia walked into Poland in 1939, Garner took an I-told-you-so attitude. He said to the President: "You haven't much choice, Cap'n. Either Hitler or Stalin would conquer the world. Hitler by force, and Stalin by chicanery, corruption, treachery and undermining...
...Communist who imagines history as moving in a spiral toward his goal will have no compunction in allying himself first with Hitler, then with Churchill, in the belief that the struggle between them will produce a "synthesis" of benefit to Communism. When a Communist wrecks a labor union or helps a reactionary to power, he is not being cynical but "systematic...
Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society
...should make them think again. Its reissue summons up memories of the debates on proletarian literature, the analyses of the bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie, the expositions of dialectical materialism, the burning of the books, the reports of the street fights in Berlin. In that period before and just after Hitler took power, the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch, born in Vienna and now living in exile in the U.S. (he was jailed when the Nazis invaded Austria...
Most readers will wish Hermann Broch had put his essays in one volume, his novels in another. But to anyone who has to deal with post-Hitler Germany, The Sleepwalkers may seem almost compulsory reading, much as Main Street and Babbitt would be required reading for anyone studying the crash...