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...impressed than some by this spectre of military action. It presupposes a Germany footloose in Europe, which means a Europe adequately organized under Germany hegemony. The tremendous problems involved in organizing such a Europe would, I think, provide surprises for those who believe that Europe will fall like a ripe plum into the waiting German hand. But even if we discount the military, menace, a German victory over France and England would oblige this country to become something approximating an armed camp. With the inevitable economic and social controls accompanying rapid militarization, we would face a regimentation in which...
...military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
...time was already ripe enough to send crack foreign-tradester and Göring's right hand, Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, to inventory Dutch finances, set up a German-Dutch economic block. Dr. Wohlthat was a natural choice to Nazify (and destroy) what was once the most complex and extensive banking system on the Continent. Only last summer he was deep in a deal whereby the British Government would lend Germany five billion dollars...
...been traditionally seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe a richness and a warmth such as cold water never did or could have, but which ripe heady wine always...
...handshaking, smiling Richard William Reading was mayor. While Mayor Reading held Detroiters' hands, Judge Ferguson held patient, unnoticed hearings, bided his time. Last January a new administration moved in, stumbled over some decaying policemen and began fumigating the police department. Judge Ferguson decided then that the time was ripe. First gobbet of muck he forked up was a million-dollar conspiracy among city and county officials, policemen and gamblers to operate a baseball pool. Among those he accused: Wayne County's fighting prosecutor ("I'll be in there sluggin' in the people's interest"), Duncan...