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Comparisons, with the Battles of Britain and Midway were overblown. Said Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air: "No one ought to get too excited-it's only one round of a continuing battle. lt was like a football coach's dream, in which every blocker takes out his man and the ball carrier crosses the line standing up. . . . Mass air attack by a team, that's what did the trick. The lesson is that if you use air power properly you get dividends...
...Overblown Rome accounts of difficulties in Yugoslavia were open to suspicion, however, because such stories provided a convenient excuse to Italy's Nazi masters for not sending more Italian divisions to the Russian front. And quite a few of those difficulties could be traced to Italian ways: some of Il Duce's quartermasters were selling arms to their Yugoslav foes...
With the centuries his reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
Responsibility for the generally overblown reports of Allied successes cannot be laid exclusively to the newspapers. The press need be reminded, perhaps, that the theory of good news selling better than bad news, is dangerous for a country at war. On the other hand, the business of the fourth estate is to give news, and right now what people want to read is War news. Without the full cooperation of the government, however, the press is on the spot; it has to fake column-six stories from one-inch Army or Navy communiques...
When Shirer went to Berlin most people outside Germany knew (the liberal, refugee and Communist press had told them so) that the Nazis were crazy and would soon be turned out by a popular uprising. Göring was an overblown playboy who liked to wrestle with lion cubs and dress up like Lohengrin. Hitler was a mad man and a paper hanger to boot...