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Instead, not understanding his powerful sex urge, he convinced himself that his mother had disgraced the family honor. He had been brought up among people who consider it right to punish someone who disgraces the family-Gino never thought he was doing wrong...
...hope to speak for my party-that there are no two wills about it. We will not punish-there will be no spirit of hatred-but we will see to it that there is no repetition of this kind of spirit in Germany." To this, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden assented: "I agree with every single word Mr. Lawson said. . . ." Some were reminded, by sentiments such as these, of feelings expressed by Winston Churchill back in 1930. In his premature autobiography, A Roving Commission, he wrote: "I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming...
Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia in 1707 to punish Tsar Peter for raids on his Baltic provinces. Peter drew him beyond his depth...
...nations were at war beside Germany at week's end: Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia-three more than fought for Germany at any time in World War I. In Spain the Naziphile Falange began recruiting "volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian...
...Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come prisoners, the insane, the Jews. Ration cards giving the owner right to more food are used to give workmen incentives to seek promotion, to increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly...