Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe he tops [Edgar] Wallace [TiME, March 13] for prolificity and ability. Then we have Napoleon's record as a writer. In 1807 when in Poland, Napoleon wrote more than 1,700 letters and dispatches on affairs of war and state in less than three months. When he did this without our present facilities of communication, what would he have done with them...
...fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
...Napoleon, the last man to go conquering through Europe, lasted 15 years. Adolf Hitler has already lasted six. Historians wondered, now that he has taken to outright conquest, how many more good years he had coming to him. For the history books say he who begins swallowing minorities begins swallowing poison...
...Institute, located behind the Invalides, where Napoleon is entombed, consists of three Georgian-style buildings which contain 68 laboratories inhabited by 218 scientists. Head of the entire organization is grey-bearded Dr. Louis Martin. There are many laboratory annexes throughout Paris, a large library, a hospital, a model monkey centre for experimental studies, and a farm at Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Paris. The Curie Cancer Center is an outgrowth of the Institute, and there are branches in Indo-China, North Africa, Greece and Persia...
...unmitigated tragedy, but almost as ominous would be a real Russo-German friendship. Not easily forgotten by Poles is the fact that a friendly Prussia, Russia and Austria helped themselves to generous slices of Poland in 1772 and 1793, swallowed the country completely in 1795-96. Although Napoleon briefly resuscitated the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, the country did not regain real independence until after the World War when, by grants from Versailles, plebiscites and seizures on its own initiative, it was pieced together from parts of Germany, Russia, Austria, Lithuania...