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...middle ground between the zero option and full deployment of the 572 new American missiles called for in the December 1979 decision. He concluded his testimony with a quotation from the British statesman Samuel Hoare, reflecting ruefully on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "slide into surrender" to Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. The comparison between Chamberlain in Munich and Nitze in Geneva was no less invidious for being implicit...
...lament profoundly what the Nazis did to the Jewish people, that Hitler and his lackeys destroyed almost six million during the last World War. But we do not accept that this gives them the right occupy a part of the Arab nation. We believe that the people of Palestine have a right to their homeland...
There was nothing donnish about Orwell's interest in language. He realized that the manipulation of speech could be every bit as deadly as the bearing of arms. He reminded all who would listen that Hitler had risen to power in Germany through persuasion; that Stalin had obscured massive crimes through the smokescreen of invective. He also warned, on the eve of World War II, that matters could deteriorate: "The terrifying thing about the modern dictatorships is that they are something entirely unprecedented. Their end cannot be foreseen. In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown...
...credo: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Animal Farm was rejected by more than a dozen publishers in England and the U.S. The clear anti-Soviet parody bothered many of them. After all, the U.S.S.R. was an ally in the crusade against Hitler. But the publishers who finally accepted the book were amply rewarded; it has sold dependably for nearly 40 years...
...Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags, and loyalty-parades...