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don’t know. Maybe democracy isn’t for the industrial age. If it’s to survive, I think the Americans will have to put up the show.”
However, there’s bound to be some warning. My mind is much more at ease now. You’re a capable young man.”
What a world! No sidewalks, no shops, no movie houses, no garages, no cars, no bicycles, no streetlights, no hydrants, no billboards;
a sound, not a sight to connect the town with the twentieth century, except a string of telegraph poles stretching along the river. Yet Natalie Jastrow was only one generation removed from this place.
The Nazi Party, a strange alliance of radicals and conservatives, of wealthy men and down-and-outers, was united only on the ideal of a resurgent Germany, and unfortunately
on the old middle-European political slogan of discontent—anti-Semitism. A riffraff of vulgar agitators, philosophic idealists, fanatics, opportunists, bullies, and adventurers, some of them extremely able and energetic, swept into power with Hitler.
Such is war: to the victor, the spoils; to the defeated, the costs.
“Well, honey, so long as we keep out of it, what do we care who wins?”
It was going to be a tough ten years, he thought, for men with grown sons.
Our company’s had some unbelievable orders, just in the last week, from North Africa, Japan, and France. The whole world’s stringing wires all of a sudden. It’s an indication.”
village houses crumbled, and after a while the shooting died off and the invasion trudged ahead. The front was a moving political edge; the Germans were forcing their national will on the Poles. As at a weather front, the squall line of violence was at the edge of change.
lot of wrong guessing goes with the start of a war.
Hartley shook his head. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I must be crazy. I never once pictured that anything like this would happen. I don’t know what I thought. Maybe that Roosevelt would fly us out in Army planes. Something like that. I’ve never been so goddamned scared in my life. We’re going to the Germans. The Germans.”
well if they also gave Germany back her old colonies. The Führer
“Right. The German industrial plant is the pistol Hitler is pointing at the world’s head. It bears study.”
If the German nation ever rises again, let it remember the different ends of these two men.
Now he was gone, and she was on her own, and it was too late. He was unreachable by love or regret.
Even Augustus was not as sanctimonious, for in those days the Christian vocabulary of humility and humaneness was not in vogue to lend such depths to hypocrisy.
“Maybe? If you had, how could you forget? Anybody’s blood should run cold at such cruelty. But somehow, what’s happened to Jews in Europe over the centuries is just a matter of course. What was Bunky’s pretty phrase? Fish in a net.”
I used to think the Nazis had swarmed up out of the sewers and were something novel. But all their ideas, all their slogans, and practically everything they’re doing is in the old books. That thing’s been brewing in Germany for a hundred years.”
Greek action. All was in readiness for the pacification of the Balkans, when Roosevelt’s emissary came to Belgrade. The Simovic Cabal
Briny just slides along the bottom edge of tolerable performance.”
