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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...
...Americans who are not too squeamish to learn from the enemy, Author Earle quotes a passage from Mein Kampf that U.S. readers might do well to memorize: "The question of regaining Germany's power is not, perhaps, How can we manufacture arms?, but, How can we produce that spirit which enables a people to bear arms? Once this spirit dominates a people, the will finds a thousand ways, each of which ends with arms!" For those who could not find this spirit, or found it repellent, Americans in their homelier days posed the alternatives in plain English: Root...
...shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...