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...enemies. But in their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin's tomb. Whether or not Lenin's remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other citizens, remembering other days, smiled at a large painting of Napoleon's 1812 retreat hung in a subway station...
...Napoleon, who lost 300,000 men in Russia, lost tens of thousands of them to typhus. On the Eastern Front last week Adolf Hitler, already suffering from the Russian winter, faced another of Napoleon's problems...
...almost as popular reading as novels. It also boosted the sales of his books (as one critic observed with Guedallan acidity) "within measuring distance of the giddy heights attained by Mr. Edgar Wallace and Miss Elinor Glynn." It was a style nicely adapted to describing the molting eagles of Napoleon I (The Hundred Days) and the tacky grandeurs of Napoleon III (The Second Empire). But is it, as Mr. Guedalla himself would ask, is it the style with which to describe Britain's great wartime leader, the human symbol in whom the terror, courage, hatreds and hopes of millions...
...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...
Course A (two hours a week) begins with lectures on geography, world trade and the strategic importance of bases and routes. Dr. William G. Fletcher of Yale wrote the geography lesson, quoted Napoleon: "Policies of all states are to be found in their geography...