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...wife and children. Business, the professions, politics and education have likewise been ruled by an authoritarian system in which, to assert and defend his status, a German bullies his inferiors, kowtows to his superiors. "The German alternately commands and scrapes." Unlike Americans and Englishmen, who consider it unsporting to exert their full strength against weaker opponents, Germans are traditionally most brutal and ruthless toward their inferiors. In their relations with other nations, they have been alternately arrogant and afflicted with a persecution complex, a condition resembling paranoia...
...forgetting the votes count themselves made him side with Churchill and the U.S.' Navy, prefer to let each power run its own show in the Pacific and elsewhere. He felt that Mr. Roosevelt, at Yalta and on other occasions, had been too gentle, too patient and reluctant to exert U.S. power...
...Clearly," said he, "we here have an entirely new phenomenon-the circular movement of matter caused by light. It reveals that just as matter rotates light, so light rotates matter. . . . Light can exert a force on a small particle comparable to the force of gravity. It can exert a push or a pull...
...only Russia was to blame for the Polish situation. In the absence of any effective check, Stalin was acting realistically from motives of hard self-interest. To the very end, the Poles had hoped that the U.S. would exert pressure in their behalf. But last week Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius announced: "This Government's traditional policy of not guaranteeing specific frontiers of Europe is well known." Specific frontiers were not the point. Clearly if the U.S. had stood firmly with Britain against Russia on the Polish question, the chances of an equitable solution would have been much...
...These things are not harmless. Monuments . . . exert a force. Their malice is unpitying. General Grant gallantly overcame his enemies, but he will never overcome his monument...