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...Access ... by all foreigners is now difficult; it will require but little more to render it impracticable. . . . Secrecy and mystery characterize everything. Nothing is made public that is worth knowing. You will find no two individuals agreeing on the strength of the army & navy, on the amount of the public debt or the annual revenue. In my opinion it is not intended by the Government that these things should be known...
...Hitler again expressed his determination to stay in Berlin, and said he wanted to die there. He thought it would be the greatest service he could render to the honor of the German nation. In this conference his desire to stay in the Chancellery was violently opposed. Keitel spoke to him in really sharp terms, reminding him that his new attitude was contradictory to his former plans. Bormann supported Keitel no less strongly...
...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...
...sudden death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at this moment in our history is a world tragedy of such magnitude as to render trivial all conventional expressions of grief and homage. Friends of freedom in all countries must respond to this challenge given them by fate and insure by their efforts the realization of his aims...
...affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power...