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...know what the colossal raid means for the people of Paris-nothing." The third and by far the grimmest German-and Italian-enterprise was the death struggle which was instinctively named The Battle of France-aimed at the morale of a people. But even this Reynaud challenged. "The dream of German hegemony will clash with French resolution. The France resisting Hitler today is not one between two wars. It is a different France, just as England combatting Hitler is not the England of the past 20 years. We of June, 1940, shall not lose our time debating responsibilities when...
Wherever death was grimmest you were there...
...little fellow, too, who always calls Pinocchio "Pinoak," yells, "Break it up, boys," to the marine life that gets under his feet. When Monstro the Whale sneezes catastrophically, Jiminy says: "Gesundheit." Most people will call Jiminy Cricket the most human character in Pinocchio and Disney's best inspiration. Grimmest inspiration is Pleasure Island, where little boys turn into asses. Not the moral, but the one vulgarly realistic false note, will scare the wits out of little boys and girls...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
...nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to All That. Last week Sassoon was in seclusion; Graves had volunteered again...