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...bombardment of bad news, some of the worst news since the fall of France. In historical retrospect their third war meeting was now destined to make them out either a pair of zanies who did not know what time of day it was, or a pair of courageous statesmen with confidence in their own acute judgment...
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels used to intimidate foreign statesmen by showing them movies of the Polish blitz and of the fall of France. Since those outdated smash hits, he has had no wows to offer. Recently he had to suffer the chagrin of going to the Japanese Embassy to see their supercolossal Nippon's Wild Eagle, showing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the conquest of the Philippines, Malaya, Borneo...
Doctor of Laws, Citation: "Most distinguished of our elder statesmen. recalled to service in an hour of need: a new Army springs to life under his vigorous leadership...
Doctor of Laws, Citation: "Most distinguished of our elder statesmen. recalled to service in an hour of need: a new Army springs to life under his vigorous leadership...
...Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth, fraud and demonism, had also its own safe-playing dread of scientists and statesmen to contend with. The Church most scrupulously anatomized Bernadette's miraculous possibilities, but was also most bewildered how to handle her. She was funneled off into the untouchable silence of a convent, where she devoutly suffered the slow agonies of tuberculosis of the bone and died...