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Last week, as Benito Mussolini addressed his obediently enthusiastic Chamber of Fasces and Corporations in Rome, the people of Italy herded around their radios had every reason to be slightly giddy. For Italy's most ruinous year had become, in dizzy oratorical retrospect, a vista of conquest...
...character of France's present head men. Eleven months of relentless German pressure might have forced some civilian leaders of conquered France to yield a great deal, without turning them into fascists. But few of France's professional soldiers have any deep appreciation of democracy. In retrospect it seemed last week that Vichy's action was a foregone conclusion, especially after the great recent Nazi victories...
...Those who were in Cambridge in the spring of 1917 will recall the scene of an academic community rapidly but confusedly becoming war-conscious. Neither at that time nor in retrospect did it seem to me an edifying spectacle. The professors acted as recruiting officers and students marched off to war; for the most part their erstwhile instructors were not able either to lead or to follow them into the combat area. The cheering, however, was vociferous...
Those who were in Cambridge in the spring of 1917 will recall the scene of an academic community rapidly but confusedly becoming war conscious. Neither at that time nor in retrospect did it seem to me an edifying spectacle. The professors acted as recruiting officers and students marched off to war; for the most part their erstwhile instructors were not able either to lead or to follow them into the combat area. The cheering, however, was vociferous...
...majority of French opinion...is inclined to regard the Versailles Peace, in retrospect, as too mild, rather than too harsh, and to demand that the present war shall be followed by a peace which would completely eliminate any possibility of a revival of German military power...