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...atomic bomb held out the hope that neither action would be necessary. Truman confided to his diary, "It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful." The question of how to deliver and drop atomic bombs on Japanese soil had been thoroughly studied at the highest U.S. government levels well before the test in New Mexico. A list of prospective targets had been drawn up, with an emphasis...
...extension of NATO membership to the countries of Central Europe on the grounds that "We've got time. If it's really 'Weimar Russia,' then we're only at 1932. NATO can enlarge when the threat gets real." The quotation incompletely expresses my views. The democracies did not resist Hitler in the 1930s until it was too late to avoid a terrible war. But a better indicator of how the West would respond to the kind of Russian misconduct that would justify the expansion of NATO is the experience of the cold war. Having learned the lesson of the Hitler...
Anti-intellectual American public discourse always tends to marginalize the occasional systematic analysis of political phenomena as "conspiracy theory" or "ideology." However, few Germans perspicacious enough to perceive National Socialist efforts to consolidate power in the early 1930s were willing to publicly challenge Hitler's manipulation of electoral rules and political advocacy. American liberals should learn the lessons of the Weimar Republic and start questioning the institutional manipulations of their opposition. Without dramatic action, they risk being permanently disenfranchised by Newts' minions...
...response to China's anger over the visit to the U.S. of Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui [CHRONICLES, June 19], I would note that China's policy toward Taiwan reminds me of Hitler's attitude toward Austria. To help China grow up does not mean we have to agree to appeasement. History has proved that 21 million free people cannot be forced to submit to hegemonic demands. Taiwan should not be sacrificed to the big powers' "strategic interest." Winston Lynn Sydney, Australia
...Masai spiritual leader tells of his nephew who may have been Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual--just one of the illusions shattered on the hard, polished surface of this novel...