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They did not sound nearly so grim as the Battle of Verdun, when hundreds of thou sands of men were blown to bits...
...this battle was more serious than either. At Verdun men died, but 20 miles behind the lines others tilled fields, worked in factories, traveled in trains. Civilized life then came to an end at No Man's Land, a civilized country was eaten away at the edges. But except at the edge its body remained almost untouched. Now the whole broad body of a civilized country was under attack...
...Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity, my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Shortly afterward, under the guns of Verdun, Franz Marc was killed. Last week U. S. gallerygoers found his soft, poetically gloomy animal scenes a welcome diversion from the hullabaloo of World...
...King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want war, and I regret making your acquaintance under these circumstances." Then they...
...world revolution, and when we people of the democracies see what we have lost in money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...