Word: teutonicisms
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They heard that the amazing British were also preoccupied with a crisis in the Labor Party, that for some reason un fathomable to Germans the strange civilian residents of the isles did not yet seem to be caught with the pre-invasion tension which gripped the rest of the world...
¶ "Those who have been brought up to speak the Anglo-American language have one great linguistic advantage. Their word equipment makes it equally easy for them to take up the study of any Teutonic or any Romance language with a background of familiar associations, because modern English is a...
But besides his individualism, there is also in every Czech a frightened, resentful victim of Teutonic aggression-and not just since Hitler. The Czech might struggle along without social security, but he insists on national security. He'll take it wherever it may come from.
Battle For Survival. The retreat was not yet a rout: the Teutonic habit of obedience was still firm, the armies' strength was still great, the commanders still able. But, however masterly, it was a retreat. Momentary survival, a postponement of utter defeat, might lie somewhere in the rear. But...
Above loyalty to the chief of state there is loyalty to the state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and...