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...Napoleon's disaster in Russia was due to the fact that he did not stop his campaign at the beginning of the winter in order to finish it in the spring under safe conditions. Napoleon, the General, could have stopped and continued the campaign when the winter was over. In that case he would have beaten Russia. But Napoleon, the General, was superseded by Napoleon, the Emperor and Politician. While his Grand Army was in Russia, the English made a landing in the Low Countries and many of the conquered nations rose. At the same time, Napoleon...
Wells: "The German conqueror today . . . is in an almost precisely parallel position to Napoleon at his culmination. He has spread himself out on an immense frontage exposed to our attack and he cannot tell from hour to hour where he may not be attacked...
Ames's fear of Napoleon was wrong, said Mr. Hoover last week, and so were modern interventionists. Hitler will be defeated, as was Napoleon, not by the Russian winter but by the hate he has kindled: "The hate of Hitler will be more terrible than the blizzard was to Napoleon." The U.S. should consequently aid Britain, build its own defenses, spread its ideas by its example and not try "to impose the four freedoms upon Europe and Asia...
...Four: "Freedom for men to choose their own callings, to accumulate property in protection of their children and old age, freedom of private enterprise that does not injure others." He would have approved Hoover's blasts at Stalin and Hitler, as savage as his own thunders against Napoleon and Robespierre...
...smoke of Waterloo was writing Napoleon's finish, a British officer, sighting the French leader, rushed up to Wellington, told him that Napoleon and his staff were standing yonder, asked that the artillery take a shot at him. Said the Duke of Wellington: "It is not the business of commanders to be firing upon each other...