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...Watch. But as his confidence grew, so did his ambition. He published a booklet, The Philosophy of the Revolution, which French Premier Guy Mollet calls Nasser's Mein Kampf, but the comparison with Hitler is unfair: Nasser came to power bloodlessly and, though a dictator, conducted no bloody Putsch of his political enemies. In his book he talked about Al Umma al Arabia-"the Arab nation"-which would extend from Cairo and Damascus to Baghdad and Amman, and of a role in the Arab world searching for a hero. It was a first warning to the few who read...
Nasser's The Philosophy of the Revolution, published two years ago, has now become must reading in Western chancelleries. France's Premier Mollet calls it Nasser's Mein Kampf. In a time of tension, the comparison is pat, but overreaching. Yet, like Mein Kampf, Nasser's little book is a self-revealing portrait of a restless, unstable man intoxicated with vast ambitions. Excerpts...
...Pringsheim, the daughter of a professor at Munich University, and it was out of his wife's experience in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients that he built another great success, The Magic Mountain, this time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather...
...onetime German P.W. who settled down after the war as a hired hand in the tiny Norman village of Ecardenville-la-Campagne. He attributed Marie's success to his secret feeding mixture of oats and hay, and to his own way with animals, which included addressing Marie as "Mein kleines Häslein" (my little rabbit) whenever he milked...
...Munich at war's end, Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public, Hitler was excused from his back taxes, after that enjoyed royalties on Mein Kampf and his salary as Chancellor tax free...