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...greatly misguided schemes is to pine for liberal giants like Willy Brandt, the focal figure of Michael Frayn?s play ?Democracy,? which has been running in London for nearly a year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought down, as other leaders have been...
...political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality as a human being ... Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade." NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, in a statement attacking U.S. President George W. Bush who had branded North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a "tyrant" in a recent speech...
...Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically relocates Jewish families to remote rural towns. Bit by bit, never shrill, never frothing, Roth shows us how easily the U.S. could...
...made a joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...Stalin or Hitler could kill millions of people,” Nye said. “But a pathological individual previously required a totalitarian framework...