Word: hitlering
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...American colonies came about because you refused the serenity of living under the British Crown. Well, we don't like the serenity-Mr. Eban's word-of being occupied. The argument that this occupied territory serves as a protective buffer for Israel-that was the argument of Hitler. What we're asking for is very simple: that our territorial integrity and the rights of the Palestinians be respected. These two elements are the sine qua non conditions for peace in the Middle East...
...platforms of both political parties. American Jews are both articulate and influential, and their anxieties are deeply felt whenever Israel is in danger, but those ringing platform pledges were not written simply to appease them in defiance of a contrary mood among non-Jewish Americans. They too remember Hitler's holocaust and admire the tough independence of the Israeli people...
...estimated 11 million people were murdered by the Hitler regime. The Indochina death toll is less exact, but it ranges somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 million. The questions remain, but in a different formulation. For we are the Germans now, and all the Elliot Richardsons we can produce cannot save us from our guilt...
...argue that a massive foreign military force could invade the United States in the thermo-nuclear age, and therefore we must be prepared to repel it with a massive military force. This is on a par with the biggest propaganda lies ever proposed by Goebbels and Hitler...
...From saying 'We must do something about Hitler,'" observed Randall Jarrell, "Auden has begun to say 'We must realize that we are Hitler.' " Though Auden published his finest single poem in 1962 (In Praise of Limestone) and for the past twenty years poured out accomplished verse, as well as streams of essays, prefaces, and translations and libretti, the easy generalization has been endured that later Auden is a poor, doddering shadow of early Auden. History may reverse the judgment...