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...theater performance depicted Bok granting positions to characters playing the roles of Harberger, Adolf Hitler and a member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Soviet move into Afghanistan [Feb. 11] is reminiscent of Hitler's annexation of Austria, then the present U.S. policy of forging a closer alliance with Communist China has its parallel in the panicked alliance of the Western powers with the Soviet Union to crush Nazi Germany. The current might of the Soviet Union owes much to this alliance during the second World War when the Soviets obtained valuable weapons and technology from the West. Even more deplorable was the consequent vassalization of Eastern Europe by the U.S.S.R., unchecked by the Western Allies...
Nonetheless, the excerpts that Hausner does include contain some interesting tidbits. Although Eichmann, prior to his arrest, had proudly professed his allegiance to Hitler, he warns in his memoir "against following idols, like the parched bones drying up in the desert." The warning was directed to both the next generation-"The youth of the world should unite. The adults failed"-and to women -"Maybe women should be entrusted with the responsibility for the world because they are led by emotion and not by intellect. Maybe they would do better than we did." Eichmann also discloses that he had been ordered...
Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...
Carter has been rereading Winston Churchill's history of World War II, studying in particular that part where Hitler moves unchallenged into the Rhineland in 1936. "Nobody sent a clear signal to Hitler," says the President. "War became inevitable. We are not going to let that happen...