Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation which has existed in Europe since July, 1940 . . . is the same as that of 1806-1814. . . . This is the second great instance of a revolutionary state which has conquered the European Continent with crushing rapidity. Today Hitler is in the same position that Napoleon was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. . . . The study of 1814 may help us to understand the situation in 1941 and to discover...
Like Hitler, Napoleon created "a great panic" in Europe, started "intercontinental terrors" all over the globe. The way to check this panic, Historian Ferrero believes, was discovered by French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and "the way out" was achieved with the sometimes reluctant help of Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Louis XVIII of France...
...would create." The frightened King tried to flee to Germany. The frightened Revolution imprisoned him, and "without an army, without an administration, without police, without laws, without a Treasury . . . was forced to make war on three frontiers." Terrified next by its own Terror, the Revolution gave itself up to Napoleon-a form of 19th-Century appeasement. But Napoleon too was a product of fear...
Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...
Minister van Mook was a scholar raised to the rank of statesman. He came of sturdy stock (a great-grandfather marched to Moscow and back with Napoleon), was the son of two schoolteachers. Born in Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided...