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...madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor registered pained indignation. "The moment I discovered that [madness]," said Hjalmar Schacht, a Nazi minister without portfolio until 1943, "I separated from him and worked against him. That was in 1938-before the war-and I did that because I saw he wanted to go to war...
...toughest the U.S. had talked to Israel since the war-and it worked. The Israeli government, strongly dependent on U.S. good will and support, kept the note a top secret. But within 24 hours the Israelis evacuated the Arab college and halted the illegal air sorties over Jordan...
...There is a Korean war-and we are fighting it-for the simplest of reasons: because free leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambition before it savagely attacked us. The Korean war-more perhaps than any other war in history-simply and swiftly followed the collapse of our political defenses. There is no other reason than this: we failed to read and to outwit the totalitarian mind...
...months after Pearl Harbor, the parishioners of Brooklyn's St. Rosalia's Roman Catholic Church watched sons and brothers going off to war-and promised each other that, when victory came, they would build a shrine to Mary, Queen of Peace. Under their pastor, Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi, they dug into pockets to raise the money. By last August, after nine years of planning and giving, St. Rosalia's parishioners had their triumph: dedication of their $2,000,000 Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, a Handsome stone building decorated with mural paintings by Italian artists and fitted...
...until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without delay." This statement, designed to put all the onus on Moscow, unintentionally revealed the state of mind that now prevails in Tokyo and in Washington: the U.S. no longer has the initiative. Peace, stalemate or war-and how much or how little of either-is Moscow's choice, to be made at Moscow's convenience...