Word: follower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels keynoted the Frederick II theme last week in a speech at Posen, in which he quoted the great ruler's retort to his generals when they refused to follow him: "Then I will continue the war alone." This savored of an ultimatum from the Nazi Party to those German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter...
Rightly we speak ever and again in our day of the Frederician spirit. It was this spirit which filled every officer, corporal and man, which made the Army follow the King for seven long years and which enabled it to make ever new exertions. It permitted a smaller number to triumph over a larger...
Back in Tokyo, Correspondent Young addressed the American Club, told Japanese businessmen about his travels in China, tried to file a follow-up story on his tour. One morning to his suite in the Imperial Hotel came a squad of busy little plain-clothes policemen. They ransacked the Young apartment, carted off armloads of letters, notes, pictures and Jimmy, locked him in a cell...
...interesting to follow his reasoning through seemingly contradictory paths. The war, he says, will bring forth horrible consequences if allowed to continue. There are three possible results: (1) a Hitler victory, which would embody all the disadvantages of a peace at the present time and none of its advantages; (2) an Allied victory, which after the hatreds of a long and tortuous struggle would embody none of the idealistic provisions now so prominent in the propaganda; and (3) an exhausting stalemate, which would be most disastrous of all, perhaps leading to the disintegration of civilization. His conclusion: peace...
...course the picture is not one-sided. Criticism of dining hall service is usually exaggerated; the conclusion that all waitresses are unaccommodating, lazy, indifferent, or simply incapable, is a generalization from isolated instances. And it doesn't follow that students would be an improvement. This much, however, can be said: under such a system, waiters who were extraordinarily bad could be fired and a substitute found, while at present all girls--good and bad alike--are as solidly entrenched as Supreme Court justices...