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...presidency." "We favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...streak of incongruous archness in her humor which is almost ladylike and very disconcerting." Woolf mentions friendships, but the reader feels no warmth. He writes most affectionately of a marmoset named Mitz (the gift of a Rothschild), which rode on his shoulder on a tour of Hitler's Germany. The monkey stole the show and distracted the Brownshirts from Woolf's culpable Jewishness...
Defeats. His tireless public career as Labor candidate for Parliament, as assiduous sitter on committees, is the record of one defeat after another. Nobody would listen-even when, as adviser to the Labor Party on foreign affairs, he tried in 1938 to muster the party to support rearmament against Hitler. Nobody, Woolf complains, read his three-volume treatise on politics...
...1930s-when double-decker buses still charged up Fifth Avenue and Danish pastry was as big as fielders' gloves; when the words "new" and "guild" and "theater" and "group" and "league" were always appearing in histrionic combinations on the drama pages; when "reasonable" men were still hoping that Hitler and Mussolini would turn out to be reasonable...
Hochhuth portrayed Pius XII as a Machiavellian "inverted mystic" who hoped to use Hitler to save Europe from Communism. The Churchill of Soldiers seems to be an equally callous caricature. According to the play, Britain's wartime Prime Minister (played by Otto Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners...