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...take up the challenge of a "lonely and difficult war." Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans had an equally appreciative audience when he told Merchant Marine Academy graduates that "the destroyers of today will not survive any more than the witch burners of Colonial New England or the book burners of Hitler's Germany." At the Air Force Academy, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said that the Administration is determined to move "from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." U.S. "ground combat involvement" in Viet Nam, he added, will end "on a reasonable schedule...
Died. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 93, Hitler's financial wizard in the early years; in Munich. Selected by Hitler as Finance Minister in 1933, Schacht used his genius in the financing of the Führer's rearmament program. But he broke with Hitler over the Nazi invasion of Austria and was imprisoned in 1944 as a suspected conspirator against the state. Tried by the Allies as a war criminal, he was acquitted and returned to banking...
With Nichols, the reason was real. An émigré from Hitler Germany, Michael Igor Peschkowsky arrived in the U.S. in 1939. The seven-year-old could speak but two sentences in his new tongue: "I do not speak English" and "Please do not kiss me." Forbearance is difficult for a little boy; there are people who will kiss a child no matter what he pleads. Mike learned how to offer a cheek and withdraw a psyche. He was a great sponge of a boy who decided...
Roughly half those eligible attended Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies in the morning; and less than seventy members of the Harvard senior class attended Baccalaureate Service in the afternoon, where President Pusey attacked the tactics of "extremist splinter groups of the New Left" as reminiscent of McCarthy and Hitler...
...discussed Mein Kamf, in which Adolph Hitler explained his use of "the big lie" as the secret of political success. He said SDS had begun propagating their "big lie" during this senior class's freshman year...