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Sunday. Death a growing preoccupation. Hitler's murderous rise in Germany The passing of close friends like Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry ("intolerable: the impoverishment"). Woolf in her 50s now, her best work behind her, battling the recurrent flashing rays of light and sharp pains in her head, the attacks of near madness that (we know) augur her suicide. "And then all this incandescence led to the galloping horses in my heart the night before last," she writes after an overexertion. "I lay in bed reasoning that I could not come smash. Death I defy...
...evident in a letter he sent to Reagan on the day before the Beirut invasion. After thanking the President for sending him greetings on his 69th birthday, Begin said, "I feel as a Prime Minister empowered to instruct a valiant army facing 'Berlin' where, amongst innocent civilians, Hitler and his henchmen hide in a bunker deep beneath the surface...
...Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such as Warsaw and Coventry that were destroyed by Hitler's Fascist troops." In a fury, Blum lashed out at Ovinnikov, terming his statement "obscene" and taunting him for the Soviet Union's use of "humanitarian tanks" in subjugating the peoples of Afghanistan, Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
Dragon's quarters, and when he launches into a demagogic diatribe about how hard and ruthless Germans need to be, we realize that this is Hitler...
Findley's reweaving of history is so canny that it is sometimes difficult to tell where the tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal...