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Villain. Less foggy were the words of Dictator-Gauleiter Laval. To his spitting hatred of the British, Laval added the U.S. and President Roosevelt. He dug back to the conquests of French Quebec and the West Indies for charges of Anglo-Saxon imperial cupidity. These he twisted into a cry that success of the Anglo-American alliance would mean domination by "Jews and Communists." Where he had once "hoped" for a German victory, Laval now said he was certain of it. Hedging, he added: "An entente with Germany is the only guarantee for peace in Europe...
...this statement did not mean that a second front would be opened this year, the Russians and many others wanted to know precisely what it did mean.* The Russians had not learned that Anglo-Saxon utterances must be weighed with a delicate skepticism. They had been brought up to take what their Govern-ment said and like it.* Besides, the Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep...
...palace sulked Farouk I, the boy king with the girl wife. No great friend of the English was Farouk. Despite years of English domination, Egypt was more Latin than Anglo-Saxon. In political control was the Wafd Party, under Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. The best that could be said of the Wafdists was that, with the Axis armies at the gates, they were neutral, their hands upraised. The Egyptian Army, little more than a police force, could not be expected to resist. Egypt, old and lush, indolent and naked, waited-ready to be taken...
Necessary. Nothing could be more natural than that out of the tradition of Irish, Scottish and English whimsy the gremlin should appear, streamlined for the 20th Century. There is a sociological and psychological necessity in the thinking of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples to conjure up the embodiment of fate in a charming form. Herr Goebbels in Berlin would not understand...
Thus Commentator Carter afforded at least a partial clue to his increasingly oblique Biblical allusions to the war (calling Hitler "Satan" and the Germans "Assyrians," calling the United Nations the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Judaic peoples" and the "Lost Tribes...