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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aqueducts. Then suddenly everything started at once-searchlights and all the anti-aircraft fire. It was unfortunate from our point of view, of course, that the enemy knew pretty well the direction from which we must attack. They had disposed their defenses so that they formed a sort of lane through which we had to pass. It seemed that they had strengthened these defenses a great deal since the first raids...
Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
...takes his art very seriously, considers himself pretty knowledgeable. Not only does he know what he likes; he is able to banish from sight in the Third Reich everything he doesn't like. There is a lot of art he doesn't like: 1) the highly individualistic sort (spattery impressionism, cubist geometry, African-influenced neo-primitives, Freudian surrealist nightmares) that made Paris the artistic capital of the pre-war world; 2) art that does not glamorize war and womanhood. Says he: "Cubism, dadaism, futurism, impressionism and the rest have nothing in common with our German people...
Celebrating his 82nd birthday, Dr. Henry Horace Williams, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, said: "Regardless of where our sympathies lie, Germany will probably win the war and organize a United States of Europe. Hitler is trying to do the same sort of thing George Washington did when he organized the 13 American colonies. Both men met plenty of opposition. But I wouldn't compare the character of Hitler and Washington, for Washington was a greater character...
...folks suppose that all colored folks are low class. Not so. U. S. Negroes "differ socially among themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common, ignorant sort of niggers." It is his class, rather than his race, which determines a Negro's behavior, personality, ambitions...