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...history, as one day last week he challenged the German Bundestag to ratify the Paris accords. The grim-faced old German titan was opening the last and fateful round in the three-year-old battle to rearm West Germany within the Atlantic alliance. On both sides of the Rhine, and of the Iron Curtain, too, all men knew that this time history required that the fight be fought to a finish...
...young soldier he has courage, stamina and ambition. He admits: "I desired the supreme power ... to become my full self before I died." As emperor he proves ruthless and gifted, fighting the imperial wars, defending the Roman peace, reorganizing Britain and the Rhine frontier. Above all, the book shows how the soldier-monarch, despite his successes in holding together the large, unwieldy empire, turns inward and becomes more and more the scholarly stoic, meditating on history, immortality and death. His last words are: "Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...
...shocked; unlike Tunisia and Morocco ("protectorates" in name, but actually colonies), Algeria is part of metropolitan France, and its people, Arab and Frenchman alike, are French citizens. Algeria's three departments have as much standing in the French Assembly as any departments between the Pyrenees and the Rhine...
Popular passions were aroused on both sides of the Rhine, and it was asking much to ask a handful of men to devise a formula that would make the Germans strong enough to worry the Russians, yet keep them restrained enough to comfort the French. A blend of such opposites could not be attained through some safe, ingenious blend of legalisms and restrictions. For the Western allies, and for the French in particular, one of the men best qualified to discuss Europe's military needs had this advice on the London Conference's eve. "If you are going...
...visitor to the campus-like surroundings of the "HICOG" office is strongly aware of the contrast with the wainscoting and small-pane windows of Massachusetts Hall. At a beautifully-landscaped estate on the bank of the Rhine, the offices occupy several large buildings of the same design as Harvard's Commons. The only thing missing is the World Tree...