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...Marty sees a deeper moral problem at the root of Watergate. It is the phenomenon of 20th century "amorality -a combination of technology, propaganda and administrative mentality; the kind of dangers Kafka and Orwell warned us of. The problem of the future is not ideology but technicians. Albert Speer [Hitler's industrial commissar] held conventional political views, was a family man, but Speer lacked any psychological and spiritual ballast. Our problem now is a general belieflessness, a nonideological commitment to the system...
...similar pacts would be signed with Hungary and Bulgaria, and Brandt's goal of rapproachement with the European Communist bloc would be achieved. The treaty with Czechoslovakia is particularly significant because it will void the last agreement made between the two countries, the Munich pact of 1938, by which Hitler annexed the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, paving the way for eventual conquest of the entire nation. The bitter history of Czech-German relations makes it likely that this treaty will indicate to Hungary and Bulgaria that the time for detente with West Germany has arrived for them as well...
Nothing worked. Although some sectors of U.S. business with interests in Germany saw National Socialism as the means to establish economic rationalization and stability in central Europe, Hitler's threat to America's main allies in trade, Britain and France, was too great to stand. America finally entered the war in 1941 after squeezing as many concessions as possible from Great Britain in return for land-lease...
...caused much trouble to the nation," he declared apologetically at a news conference. "Under the present circumstances, for me to engage in political activities would be meaningless." He hardly seemed to be the same compelling orator who, until this August, was calling President Park "an Asian version of Hitler" and proclaiming himself "the sole South Korean voice speaking against dictatorship and for freedom." Kim indicated that he might soon be allowed to leave the country for the U.S. to accept a fellowship at Harvard...
With a twinkle in his eye and mock solemnity in his voice, handsome, white-haired Wilmarth S. Lewis gazed at his New Haven audience and declared: "The year 1933 is memorable for three events: Hitler's accession to full power, the first Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt, and the start of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ladies and gentlemen, which of these events is, so to say, still going strong...