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National Socialism grew to brutal manhood on appeasement's food. Hitler's Enabling Act had passed in 1933 because the Catholic Center Party voted for it, thinking that Hitlerism would run its brief course to ruin if left alone. Said a local Social Democratic leader whom Authors Weyl and Jansen call Kurt Riemann: "If we stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense...
...service are what the politicians love to refer to as "the flower of American manhood." Maybe we are; however, at the moment I do not feel much like a flower. . . . We are pretty well able to take care of ourselves and if not we at least don't want Senator Bilgewater and Congressman Bafflebrain telling us when we can have a drink...
Anxious to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Russian-born Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini, 29, Hollywood studio designer and husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, became a U.S. citizen. Said Actress Tierney, when questioned as a witness: "I know him to be the finest type of manhood...
...date of horror in Serbian minds, the Turks defeated the Serbs on the plain of Kosovo and slaughtered the cream of Serbian manhood. For the next four centuries Turkey bore down on Serbia as hard as Adolf Hitler has done, with such devices as impaling, mutilation and the roasting of living Serbs on spits...
They tried, instead, to reform the election laws so that Japan's universal manhood suffrage would be supplanted by votes for no one except family heads and military reservists. This "reform" would have disfranchised some 2,000,000 voters, including many unwarlike Japanese, both liberals & conservatives. A howl rose in Diet circles. Finally, in January 1941, a political bargain was struck. The Government dropped its electoral-reform scheme, extended the term of the current lower house for a year, promised not to press legislation which would have increased Japan's economic totalitarianism. In return, the Diet agreed...