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...matters. He also referred specifically to Soviet fears of neo-Nazism. But Kosygin added: "We trust you, and if you explain the subject to us, we shall listen carefully." Brandt assured Kosygin that his country's social and economic conditions differed immeasurably from the Germany of the pre-Hitler period, and took up Kosygin's proposal that the two governments make immediate plans for economic and technical cooperation and for the financing of major industrial projects. Brandt will send Economics Minister Karl Schiller and Education and Science Minister Hans Leussink to Moscow for talks next month...
...dread in Europe. When the two countries fought each other, as they did in both world wars, other nations suffered as a result, and when they were allied, during long periods of history, it was scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that...
...contrast to Hitler or Mussolini, Tojo's countrymen place no special blame on him for the start of Japan's most catastrophic military adventure. If an opinion poll were taken today in Japan, most people, if they remembered him at all, would probably regard him with either neutral or sympathetic feelings. As one recent Japanese textbook improbably insisted, Japan was left with no other choice except to go to war with the Allies, and Tojo was simply the man who pushed the button...
...international banking clan who turned to biochemistry and twice won the Nobel Prize; of pneumonia; in West Berlin. Warburg's first Nobel was in 1931 for his pioneering research into the nature of the respiratory enzyme; his second came in 1944 for equally basic studies of cancer. While Hitler forbade the scientist of Jewish descent from accepting the prize, he did permit Warburg to continue working because of his own dread of the disease...
...clear. It says that 1970 America, rather than being like Nazi Germany, is like its predecessor, the Weimar Republic of the 20's. Liberal institutions are revealed as totally bankrupt, minority revolution is fiercely suppressed, majority coasts along with mounting prosperity, finding its soul in moments of absolute debauchery. Hitler is the inevitable next step...