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...Italians had tried to destroy everything that might be of use to the attackers. They touched off the damaged 33-year-old, 9,232-ton cruiser San Giorgio, which had been beached to be a permanent antiaircraft battery, with a dynamite blast...
...Shatzky told how the books had escaped the Nazi bonfire. After Freud fled to Britain, a Nazi official, who was also an ardent Freudian, turned the library over to a bookseller, warned him not to use Freud's name in advertising, lest more devout Nazis seize and destroy the books...
...Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between $15,000 and $500,000. In the making, taxperts guessed...
Next Step? Having already decisively defeated the Italians, General Sir Archibald Wavell had accomplished his first objective. All that remained was to see how completely he could destroy Marshal Graziani's Army...
Lenin had warned: "The counterrevolution develops in exact proportion as the revolution develops." Better than anybody, Communists knew that the experience of the ex-fellow travelers was by no means wasted, feared that the Party had trained a group of men who would one day help to destroy it. The literary intellectuals might be slow, lazy, self-important, unpractical, fussy or funny, but they had reached their convictions, "not without years in the wilderness and days of blindness." Above all they were articulate...