Word: napoleonism
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Arrow Cross v. Double Cross. The strategy might be a purely Balkan one. Just as Napoleon turned back from the English Channel to Ulm and Austerlitz because he feared treachery at his rear, Adolf Hitler was perhaps just consolidating the ructious minor countries of the southeast. There was certainly plenty of consolidating to be done...
...Dramatic Adolf Hitler officially received the French surrender in: 1. The village where Marshal Foch was buried. 2. Railroad car where Foch received German surrender in 1918. 3. Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated in 1814. 4. Versailles, where German Empire began in 1871. 5. Dugout where he was wounded in World...
...those days Hollywood was rather colorful, because nobody took off his makeup at night, and everybody walked up & down the streets at night dressed like Napoleon, and did their business. And we used to wait to get a call . . . and when we got the call we would grab a sand wagon and go to Universal, which was the popular studio at that time...
...pronouncement on the address, the American Student Defense League said, "The Little Napoleon of Columbia" has defined the duty of a scholar to direct public opinion in the paths of reason, by inference making himself the scholar of scholars. We admire his intellectual self-confidence, but deplore his un-American intolerance...
...Russell said, "If it lasts long enough, America is sure to get dragged in on one thing or another--the Germans sooner or later are bound to do something you can't stand. Once Hitler begins to doubt his star, he will get silly, just as Napoleon...