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Replied Thorez: "The General Federation of Labor has been overrun, or is in danger of being overrun, by Trotskyist elements. In order to prevent this movement from getting out of hand, we decided last night to support the workers' demands...
...moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time has the bomb (say 1950), then no mind can imagine to horrors that will follow...
...consulted her mother-in-law, Princess Margareta, of the German House of Hesse, about the sentimental privilege. The 74-year-old sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II had hesitated; there were complications. Friedrichshof, her turreted, 80-room castle near the Hessian town of Kronberg, was overrun with American officers who seemed to be using it for a Bierhalle while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried...
...Churchill's charge that Russia dominated her neighbors, Stalin had the unreassuring answer that Soviet security required neighboring governments to be "loyal." In any case, said Stalin, Churchill "rudely and shamelessly libels not only Moscow" but her neighbors, in making such a statement. Germany had been able to overrun all these countries while they were "inimical to the Soviet Union." Russia wanted to protect them and herself by bringing them into her own safe sphere, and "how can one, without having lost one's reason, qualify these peaceful aspirations . . . as 'expansionist tendencies...
Author Bill's Richmond swarms with society belles, refugees from the overrun plantations, speculators, spies, politicians, soldiers, officers, the dead, the dying. Here is the young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits...