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...Reported TIME, July 2, 1945: "There was no simple touchstone, no all-embracing word to sum up the world organization that emerged this week from San Francisco. Augustus had sought the security of his world through Roman 'justice'; Gregory through Christian 'brotherhood'; Napoleon through 'law' and the Grand Army; Metternich through 'legitimacy'; Wilson through 'democracy.' The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said 'security.' By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
...Whimsy. Hardship never crushed Reder's sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...
...beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like it; the beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...
Field Marshal Napoleon. MacArthur first came to the Philippines in 1903 as a second lieutenant fresh out of West Point. (His father, General Arthur MacArthur, served as last military governor of the islands.) The lieutenant spent a year engineering sea walls, wharves and roads, came back briefly in 1923 and then in 1928 as a brigadier general commanding all U.S. troops in the Philippines. In 1935 MacArthur finished up a five-year stint as the youngest U.S. Army chief of staff. His next job: Philippines military adviser, with the rank of field marshal in the Philippine army. Foreseeing the coming...