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...bottlenecks are transport and manpower. Both are fundamental; both have been developing for years. Hitler was warned of them by such knowledgeable advisers as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and some of his key railroad men before the war began. He chose to go ahead despite them, counting on quick conquests. What he did not count on was conquest without victory...
Lowell reined in the elective system so that students had to concentrate in one field after introductory courses. Said he: "The time has long passed when instruction can be given purely by lectures-as the Moors after the conquest of Granada were baptized by sprinkling in crowds." He pioneered Harvard's individual tutorial system, which has been widely copied. But he was never satisfied. Long after he grumbled: "No wonder there is so much knowledge in colleges. The freshmen always bring in a little, and the seniors never take any away." Said he of I.Q. tests: "No good...
...farm gone and with no job open to him, Ausborn had to go on relief. Every extra dollar he could scrounge he put into more pamphlets. He warned newspapermen, police and the Canadian Legion of the Bundists in their midst, and of Hitler's plans for conquest. They paid even less attention to him after he came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked: Why did he not mind his own business when he came...
GERMAN STRATEGY OF WORLD CONQUEST-Derwent Whittlesey-Farrar & Rinehart...
...resist of the Russian people-who had as much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...