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Unwittingly, Badoglio had done the Allies a great but indirect service. His declaration of war against his former ally last week had the approval of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin; their joint acceptance of Italy as a cobelligerent was the first three-way declaration on the record. It meant more to the future of Allied military and political operations than any weight which cobelligerent Italy might some day bring to bear against the Nazi...
...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
...halls of Littauer are soundproofed, and all rooms are lit by the most modern kind of indirect lighting. The desks and chairs of the classrooms are unmarked, bare of the patina that weighs down those of Sever and the New Lecture Hall...
...favorite apologists, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar: "We started this war with different conceptions from those we hold now. Many illusions were shattered. . . . We realize that such an adversary cannot be knocked out with one blow." Inasmuch as Adolf Hitler conceived the invasion of Russia, this remark constituted indirect criticism of the intuitive Führer...
...impertinence to defeat the Germans in the First World War. . . . How does it happen that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson, so severe on states that are stumbling blocks to their neighbors, have hardly a word to say against Germany? This book is full of propaganda, direct and indirect, in favor of the common enemy. . . . There are hints that the United Nations are really as bad as anybody else...