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...Admiral of Flensburg. The chief instrument and executor of German surrender policy was Grand Admiral Karl Dbnitz. In retrospect, his rise to this eminence of disaster was revealing...
...notable fact about Eisenhower's prediction is not that it was wrong, but that it was based on a complete confidence that the invasion would succeed. In retrospect, his brilliant success made it seem like much less of a gamble than it had seemed before June...
...time since Lenin opened the first session of the Supreme Soviet (and a new chapter in human history) with the casual words: "We shall now proceed with the organization of the socialist state," Russia had ceased to be a defensive power. It had passed over to the offensive. In retrospect it was clear that the revolution was the most important fact of World War I. Russia's emergence as the No. 1 power in Europe and Asia might well be the most important fact of World...
Deprived of his bitter social implications, the Ape bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...
...rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General Smuts carried in his saddlebags, along with his biltong (dried venison) and coffee, a Greek Testament and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In retrospect, he seems to have fought not so much for a free Boer State as for a more tolerant British imperialism. But he fought to the very end, to the war's last action, the siege of O'okiep...