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...years she suffered the indignities and ordeals of English prison life, while her mother, the Baroness, spent a fortune trying to win her release. Cardinal Gibbons, U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine and Ambassador Robert Lincoln added their appeals. At last, in 1904, Florrie was freed...
...first is that the reported peace proposal was "unacceptable." But as Professor Hocking outlined the assumed German peace proposal, it contained the offer that Germany's present government (i.e., Nazis) would be replaced, and that her conquests would be freed. Such a proposal would not be unacceptable; on the contrary, it would be most acceptable; but it would be incredible. Obviously the Hitler government, at the present moment of victory, is not going to offer to step out, or yield its conquests. If any such "offer" reached the British it could be one of two things: an offer by some...
...Joseph Stalin must have reviewed with a weary irony his relations with Hitler. When the upstart Hitler came to power in 1933, Joseph Stalin was already steel nine years tempered. He had already begun great projects: rivers to be dammed, factories built, farms collectivized, illiteracy obliterated, men freed-and opposition to be liquidated...
...nation cannot be freed by prayer. . . . Nations are not freed by doing nothing, but by sacrifices. . . . Passive resistance has real significance only if backed by a determination . . . to continue resistance by open struggle or by means of clandestine guerrilla warfare.-Mein Kampf...
Vichy held up to the light last week one of the fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered...