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When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...
...Life & Death of Adolf Hitler, Payne...
...local nationalists did greet the Germans as potential liberators. But Strik-Strikfeldt's sketches of the conquering Germans restoring abandoned churches as they went and winning the huzzahs of the downtrodden populace is an astonishingly ingenuous view of the Nazi war machine. As late as 1941, he insists, Hitler had "the opportunity to refashion Europe on a basis of freedom, justice and equality." That is like saying that the jaguar, in mid-attack, could change into an antelope-and it explains much about German naiveté. Anyone who could believe that could believe anything. Mayo Mohs
...Payne offers this as the inspiration of the Nazi insignia. But the ancient symbol, common in Germanic countries, had been used by other right-wing groups well before Hitler...
...Catholic foe of Communist China was incensed by the Fides article. Said Right-Wing Jesuit Journalist Daniel Lyons: "Mao's ideas are no more Christian than Hitler's were. Hitler also fed the poor-when it served his purpose. We have the right to expect Vatican spokesmen to speak out like Christ against the Pharisees and not to try to create dialogue with them by compromising Christian teachings...