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...trial is so grievous that no Frenchman can think of it without emotion, regret and sadness. Whatever may be the fault or the crime ... all France bears the weight...
...addition to his financial services to Nazidom, Bormann has made ideological contributions in the field of religion. Recently he told Party leaders: "Trying to produce order at the Vatican is a fault into which we Germans have unfortunately often fallen. . . . From the standpoint of the Reich it would have been most desirable if there had been, not one Pope, but at least two or, if possible, many more. They would have fought one another. The people must be wrested from the churches and their priests. Their influence must be permanently broken in the same way as the harmful influences...
...retailers knew it too. They remember all too clearly the whooping price increases of the last war and the punishing 1920 inventory loss (estimated at $11,000,000,000) they had to take as a result. That was partly their own fault, because of the pyramiding effect of their "replacement-cost" pricing policy. This time they have done their best to keep the retail lid on. Their concerted policy of averaging costs has thus far kept retail prices to around 20% above their pre-war level v. an overall wholesale-price increase...
While admitting that the skeleton organization is basically good because it is built on English experience, Minot criticized the lack of liaison between the various departments, and the lack of equipment. "Perhaps this is not wholly the University's fault," he said "but there should be more pressure exerted to get the necessary equipment...
...awkward"' one. The information, even if they brought it back, would be useless, even if it were to reach the General Staff, which it would not. It was "as if you dashed glassfuls of water into a forest fire." And yet "it's no one's fault. . . . Everybody struggles as hard as he can to make war look like war." Their business was "to sketch the face of a war that has no face" and, all but certainly...