The raw materials aspect made sense- but the simultaneous fighting of two fronts was bitterly contested by all his more competent generals at the time.
As you say, Hitler was losing the plot by this time.......
US entry into World War II
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"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
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And the USSR didn't declare war with Japan until days before the Japanese surrender.
Mart
Mart
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Murphy became an actor because of his war record. Stewart, Heston, Niven and others jeopardised their careers to do what they thought was right. And Wayne fought the good fight in sunny CA.
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No argument from me on that score.
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True: but I was merely adding him to the list.
Good point about the career-damage issue, though.
Good point about the career-damage issue, though.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder , bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundered years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce...? The cuckoo clock." Orson Welles
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Point taken- but mankind's inherent urge to violence is a primitivism that has outgrown it's usefulness. I'm sure a species can be creative without being simultaneously self-destructive. As Arthur C Clarke says, it's the next great evolutionary quantum-leap.
Sublimate, dear boy: sublimate.
Sublimate, dear boy: sublimate.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
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Nice quote but the cuckoo clock originates from the Black Forest in Germany.
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Re: US entry into World War II
mart wrote:
> Nice quote but the cuckoo clock originates from the Black
> Forest in Germany.
>
> Mart
>
And while Orson Welles may have spoken the words.... they were written by Graham Greene!
> Nice quote but the cuckoo clock originates from the Black
> Forest in Germany.
>
> Mart
>
And while Orson Welles may have spoken the words.... they were written by Graham Greene!
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Do the RSPB know about this?
I mean, issa bit cruel, innit, locking up poor little birdies forever inside of clocks...........bloody Swiss.
Hope their Army Knives rust and their Navy runs aground.
I mean, issa bit cruel, innit, locking up poor little birdies forever inside of clocks...........bloody Swiss.
Hope their Army Knives rust and their Navy runs aground.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."