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...same laws, Germany exhausted herself in the depths of Russian space, was finally beaten by Allied land power. A few weeks before he committed suicide, Haushofer disclosed that he was more German than scientific. "When Germany went down," he said, "she took with her my raison d'être" Actually, Haushofer had found a new and brilliant disciple. Russia has long been interested in geopolitics, has its own version of a geopolitical institute (Moscow's Institute for World Economy and Politics), which concerns itself with the conflict between the U.S. and the World Island toward the shores...
...green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down from the Vancouver Hotel...
...cette guerre! This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "Il jaur souffrir pour étre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...