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Princess Margaret tracks the regal personage from its earliest years when it could be found in the nursery, biting its older sister. At times, Margaret seems to have walked from a Thurber cartoon, inquiring in 1939, "Who is this Hitler, spoiling everything?" By her early 20s she has become a peculiar amalgam of Elizabeth Taylor and an acrylic doll, possessing "an almost Semitic beauty with a Lucite complexion...
...Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) casts a long shadow over modern art. His career took him to most of its centers: Munich before World War I, Russia, and next a long sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more to promote...
...Muggeridge type forever. Assigned to intelligence during World War II, he regards the conflict as alternately bemusing and boring. In America, he surveys a country "not of humans but of mechanical brains." At home he concludes that "the true destroyer of Christendom isn't Stalin or Hitler or even the Dean of Canterbury and his like, but Liberalism...
...satisfied with and hoe programs which respond to crises at they occur. For among the alternatives to movements emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his form of global community--movements such as the NIEO--history shows us the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. A Hitler or Stalin brandishing atomic bombs is almost too much for the imagination...
...contains eye-witness accounts of many of his heroic and ingenious efforts while in Budapest. Bierman plays up Wallenberg's heroism by contrasting it against the atrocities that were committed in Hungary at the time, especially by Eichmann, Wallenberg's arch-enemy and a man utterly dedicated to Hitler's Final Solution--the absolute extermination of Jews in Europe...