Friedel Rosenthal, U.S. Hostage in Germany: A Combat Veteran's Appeal to the American PeopleThe Author, 1948 - 34 էջ |
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Էջ 27 - Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
Էջ 2 - We shall not be able to claim that we have gained total victory in this war if any vestige of Fascism in any of its malignant forms is permitted to survive anywhere in the world.
Էջ 29 - Under normal immigration laws there is nothing that would exclude a Nazi or a Fascist.
Էջ 29 - L'Heureux: I don't think we have ever concluded that the Nazi Party agreed that it is for the overthrow of government by force.
Էջ 7 - Line's dragon's teeth defenses and breached the pill-box ranks in canny, slow fighting. Special demolition squads advanced from pillbox to pill-box. While automatic weapons and riflemen gave covering fire, a dough crept up to one pill_box and destroyed it with a beehive charge placed in a gun port or ventilation slot.
Էջ 11 - Harriet dropped her sewing and jerked her hand to her mouth as if to stifle a scream. She knew now how tense, how breathlessly alert she had been all evening.
Էջ 5 - They cut the 142nd in two, broke through the town, were cut off, attacked again. We captured our 20,000th prisoner in Oberhoffen. The fighting had its light moments. One of the men we dubbed the "Deacon" didn't like to hear irreverent words on the line.
Էջ 2 - An injury to one is an injury to all. It is an inescapable axiomatic fact.