Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going got tougher. The initial Nazi torrent, catching the Russians with their rubbers off, had swept ahead breathtakingly. But in the second week it began to look as if that early ease had been misleading. The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return trip, against the so-called Stalin Line at the Dniester River and near Zhitomir, and against ferocity and tenacity everywhere...
...Russian defensive remained to be developed. Remembering how they beat Napoleon-and perhaps Chiang Kai-shek's defense of China-the Russians have the option of using the size of their country as a weapon to wear down the enemy. On the first day mass flights of Russian bombers attacked East Prussia. But Red withdrawal would eventually be necessary, because the position held by the Russians was dangerous; in the initial phases geography was on the side of the Germans...
Invading Russia beat Napoleon. Perhaps it beat Kaiser Wilhelm. But Adolf Hitler thinks he can do it differently. He is deep in plans for the Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
...mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were living under the Union Jack. Führer Hitler's Stooge Mussolini did the same thing...
...buttresses his argument with numerous incidents in our history as well as statements by our political leaders. For example, he returns to Jefferson, favorite prototype of contemporary isolationists, to show that even he was willing "to marry our selves to the British fleet and nation" in order to prevent Napoleon from occupying Louisiana...