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...four-page version of the Harvard Progressive which was handed out at registration may have been small, but it managed to squeeze in almost as much vituperation as the five or six hundred pages of Mein Kampf. It seems in order at this point to say a few words in defense of the institution which even the editors of the Progressive have chosen to attend...
Raymond Gram Swing in his introduction calls My New Order "a sequel to Mein Kampf." It is more. The unscrupulous greatness of Mein Kampf lies in two political perceptions: 1) the fact that whoever controls the masses controls the modern state; 2) the recipe for controlling the masses. Mein Kampf told how it could be done. My New Order shows Hitler doing it. For Hitler towers among history's demagogues because he understands better than others that the timing between oratory and action must be like the interval between the flash and the crash...
Their instructors were a group of intimates: twinkling Dr. William Allan Neilson, Smith's president-emeritus, as director, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Librarian Archibald MacLeish and other White House favorites. Popular reading matter at the institute: Mein Kampf and Louis Fischer's Men and Politics. At Mrs. Roosevelt the students shot such questions as "Should we enter the war? . . . Are there appeasers in the State Department?" Mrs. Roosevelt answered off the record. They took turns presiding at meetings, organized groups of hecklers to get practice in handling them...
...area Adolf Hitler has been most interested in ever since he dictated Mein Kampf is the Ukraine (see p. 27). Into the Ukraine many fingers of attack dug forward. As the basis of this attack, and also as the southern jaw of the master pincers, German troops, supported by Rumanians, cut into Bessarabia, the area which Russia grabbed from Rumania in June 1940. Main Russian defenses were behind the Dnieper; Bessarabia looked as easy to take as the Baltic States...
...Hitler's avowal in "Mein Kampf" that Russia was his first enemy in Europe...