Word: hitleritis
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Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, prophesized that Hitler might use Pierre Laval, the French Quisling, as a front for a peace offensive. He also stated that the French people hate Laval and that their sentiments are pro-British and pro-American...
...Insult to Churchill? Andrew Sullivan's attempt to draw parallels between Winston Churchill and Bush in his essay "If It Could Happen to Churchill ..." was unconvincing [March 8]. Churchill's war against Hitler was necessary. Bush's war against Saddam Hussein was not. Churchill knew what Hitler was doing. Bush relied on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. After the war, Britons may have wanted a different political party to lead them during peace. Postwar America's decision about who should be President is still up in the air. Only the elections will tell. Let's wait...
...During World War II, the allies did little to stop the advance of genocide or to censure the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which is how we would classify the gas chambers at death camps today. Stopping Hitler would have been the right thing to do, but British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain didn't have the moral fiber to do it. Even if he was unaware of the intended genocide, he might have helped prevent a world war. Tony Blair believes he did the right thing in Iraq by removing a dangerous man from power. Saddam Hussein...
...Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a wealthy widow, Schott bought the baseball team in 1984, but she knew little about the sport; she once settled a contract dispute by flipping a coin. Reds executives accused her of using racial and ethnic slurs. In a 1992 interview she said, "Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far." Several similarly offensive comments followed, and in 1999, under pressure from the team's limited partners, Schott sold her controlling interest. To many in the city she remained beloved for her gifts to charity...
...other Churchill parallel is equally unnerving. Churchill was a Tory as much as the current Bush is a conservative. But during wartime, Churchill expanded government to mobilize the country to fight Hitler. By doing so, Churchill helped legitimize Big Government. So the Labour government that succeeded him was the most left-wing in Britain's history. It favored high taxes, nationalized industries and created socialized medicine. The Tories, because they had backed Big Government in wartime, had little credibility in opposing these policies. Similarly, Bush has expanded government more aggressively than any President since L.B.J. (another war leader). Vast...