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...great waves of pessimism that have swept over the United States relative to the future of the world have gotten me very impatient. . . . As far as history is concerned we must remember ten or 20 years is only a second. Napoleon kept Europe in an uproar for 15 years, but ultimately England triumphed by the strangling blockade that she maintained over those years...
...this basis. He told Britishers: the U. S. will never underwrite the British and French Empires, because the U. S. is traditionally opposed to imperialism, or the political control of one people by another. The U. S. attitude is likely to be similar to Britain's after Napoleon...
Foremost sightseer was a little man in a light brown duster who slipped practically unnoticed into the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Adolf Hitler gazed down at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, another "Little Corporal" whose star had soared to a zenith equaled only by his own before it sputtered and plunged...
This was Adolf Hitler's first visit to the Forest of Compiégne, where Louis XVI received Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon received Marie-Louise, where 510 years ago Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers...
Most desirable to Italy are Egypt and the Suez Canal, the one rich in cotton, the other vital to reach Italy's present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French...