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Postwar Prescription. For these reasons Professor Maier suggests that, instead of trying to create a "docile and crawling Germany," the United Nations postpone a final peace treaty for a cooling-off period of ten years, meantime take steps to save Germany from economic depression and turn the new German generation to constructive and attainable goals. On benevolent Allied parole, the German people must work out their own salvation. Otherwise their frustration will fester on, and some day explode again in another ratlike rage...
...side of the wall, he must have a special sort of confidant. This person must be a congenial friend, understanding and totally discreet, with whom the general can talk with utmost freedom. The confidant should be without personal military ambition; he should want nothing from the general save his confidence...
...days of 1932 he was president of Veeder-Root, Inc. (mechanical counting devices) in Hartford, Conn. Veeder-Root was on the downgrade, as were so many firms, and losing money. Anthony managed to stop the skid and make Veeder-Root profitable. He is still board chairman. His strategy to save Colt: "Get out the guns...
...picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
...Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...