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...best of all war commentators spoke to the world last week. In the Berlin Sportspalast, before 10,000 wounded Nazis and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on leave from Egypt (see p. 31), Adolf Hitler used the ponderous sledge hammer of his sarcasm to score on the Allied optimists who have refused to admit United Nations' defeats. Said...
Expected Scorn. But Hitler needed his sarcasm, too, to cover up the weak points in the German record. He paid a scornful tribute to the astounding fighters who were giving him his greatest opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that...
STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
Associates know him as a calm man, a steady, levelheaded "slow burner." He speaks without wasting words, often with a dry, schoolteacher's sarcasm...