Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, claiming that the Germans had a fantastic 1,000,000 casualties, admitted that they themselves had 250,000* Assuming that the latter figure was an understatement, the Russians were no doubt desperately busy during the pause between the first and second Nazi pushes, trying to strengthen their defenses...
...Even Leon Henderson, given all the power he wants, expected to be little more than a drag on inflation, stopping advances here & there at strategic points. The problem was seen rather in its overall fiscal aspect: that of increasing total output and keeping consumer buying power down. For the latter, the consumer could count on one thing, whether his prices are controlled or not. His taxes, both on what he earns and what he buys, will hurt...
Pouring himself a glass of tea to cool his throat, Comrade Stalin answered his own question: "Of course not! . . . Could the Soviet Government have declined such a proposal? I think that not a single peace-loving State could decline a peace treaty with a neighboring State, even though the latter was headed by such fiends and cannibals as Hitler and Ribbentrop...
...Villain of latter-day Pan-Germanism is not Hitler, says Author Chéradame, but the German General Staff. When the General Staff saw that it must lose World War I it utilized the fear of Bolshevism to win an armistice. (Last week the Germans were once more "saving Europe" from Bolshevism.) But the General Staff never considered the Armistice anything more than an armistice. Kept intact through the Reichswehr, the General Staff planned to continue the war as soon as possible, first by what André Chéradame calls scientific warfare (propaganda, the war of nerves, etc.), later...
...Aleppo-Latakia column was believed to be headed by Major John Bagot Glubb, commandant for the past decade of Trans-Jordan's independent Arab Legion and another latter-day Lawrence of Arabia...