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Once there was a Vietnamese pilot-politician who wore a violet scarf with his jumpsuit, tossed off remarks about Hitler's good points, and generally seemed to make himself the personification of a great deal that is wrong in Saigon. Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky is no longer so psychedelic in speech and dress. Still, he is such an easy target for peace partisans in the U.S. that when he was invited to address a pro-war rally in Washington in October, the Nixon Administration deflected the pre-election visit. As consolation, Henry Kissinger promised Ky an official invitation...
...Invisible Finns. The Soviet ex-Premier's account begins with the event that set the stage for Russia's entry into the war-the nonaggression treaty between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. Khrushchev learned of the pact when he was summoned to Stalin's dacha after a day of hunting with other members of the Soviet hierarchy. "While the trophies of our hunt were being prepared for the table," recalls Khrushchev, "Stalin told us that [Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop had brought with him a draft of a friendship and nonaggression treaty and that...
...Adolf Hitler...
...Fiihrer's genocidal injunction. By the end of World War II, one out of every five Poles-6,000,000 in all -had perished at German hands. After the war, the Poles were unbendingly hostile toward the West Germans in particular, regarding them as the moral heirs of Hitler's Third Reich...
...France, the late Charles de Gaulle made every effort to rid the language of franglais expressions, with only mixed success. The Germans are hesitant to embark on a similar campaign of linguistic purification. One reason is that Hitler tried to purge German of all non-Teutonic expressions, and an attempt today might smack of Nazism...