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...seen 'culture' in German villages which has made a certain impression. Our agitators must uncrown this German 'culture'. .'. . To draw an analogy: there are people in our towns and villages who hardly ever read and who are really very little developed, but yearn to dress more fashionably, to wear hats, even smoking jackets, and to use eau de cologne. . . . But by themselves and from inside themselves they are not cultured. Such appears to me to be the culture of the German burgher or kulak. This is a purely external culture, an empty one, not grasping...
Then he asserted what all Britons yearn to believe: that Britain will lose nothing in the give-& -take. Said Eden: "Many have a suspicion that ... we have committed ourselves to limit or exclude our interest in certain parts of Europe...
Postwar. Both yearn avidly for social reforms (their primary goal: job security). But Jacques wants these things achieved through private enterprise, Jack favors Government controls...
Killer at Work. When invasion comes, Darnand's job will be to keep order in the rear of the German defenders. In advance of invasion, his job is to quiet those Frenchmen who yearn too strongly for it. His personally appointed courts now have the power of life & death over any Frenchman they can catch. His thugs do not require even this veneer of legality...
Last week in Bermuda, three British delegates, three American delegates, and assorted advisers, censors and other assistants held the first of a series of international conferences initiated by President Roosevelt. Subject: refugees, and the plight of oppressed millions who yearn to escape from Nazi Europe. Announced accomplishments: none, as might have been expected of any such conference in wartime. The official explanation (by Richard Kidston Law, Britain's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs...