Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hitler and his Party are not concerned to bring about juster frontiers in Europe between free peoples or a fairer distribution of colonial territories between the leading nations of the world. Their object is to subjugate others so that they and their resources can be organized on totalitarian lines for the benefit of the German military State. Hitlerism cannot stop and become peaceful. Nazi Germany is organized for war and totalitarian economics and for nothing else. Its economic system, like everything else, is built on fraud. War and preparation for war are its only real remedy for unemployment...
...politically impossible." If the course were not practically pure anti-Nazi propaganda, it would be attacked by hordes of well-meaning patriots, and very likely persecuted out of existence, even though in some future day the Germany of Adolph Hitler will probably be a far more important object of study than the Vichy government or occupied France. Thus does Harvard keep abreast of the latest fashions in scholarship and patriotic sentiment...
...power. In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton called a convention of woman's-rights seekers that adopted a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence: "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." It listed 18 specific grievances. Last week's Congress pointed out how few of them still applied...
Sirs: I nominate for Man of the Year, not the heretofore irresistible force, but today's immovable object, Winston Churchill-sustaining, and sustained by, the morale of a free people in its darkest hour...
...Argirocastro ("Silver Fort") and over the mountains toward Porto Edda. One more Greek column pushed up across the Kalamas River out of Epirus, driving the last invader from Greek soil and threatening to wipe him out of southern Albania as well. With the Italians in retreat everywhere, the ultimate object of all the Greek columns was to cut off their foe from his ports of escape...