Epstein Secrets

s communism and fascism looked like the coming things: when Spain temporarily restored its parliamentary government in 1931, Benito EFTA00684351 Mussolini likened it to returning to oil lamps in the age of electricity. In the mid-1970s Willy Brandt, a former German chancellor, pronounced that "western

1947 that containment would lead to the eventual breakup of the Soviet Union, his strategic thinking ranged far wider. Whether planning policy at the State Department or writing history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Mr. Kennan stood out as an intellectual who thought otherwise — indeed as a thinker whose t

still sing ditties I learned from friends (the first sung to the tune of the Disney song from Snow White). “Whistle while you work Hitler is a jerk Mussolini is a meanie And the Japs are worse” And another (sung to the melody of “My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty”): “My country tis of thee Sw

tudent Government. When I told him my story, he said, “I made it to Havana,” and I said, “but the flights were cancelled.” He said, “No they weren’t. The State Department just issued a warning that it was a little bit dangerous.” I guess he was more determined to lose it than I was. His wife, who was then his college g

theus Books, 1988) 212 70 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018302 to the neck and in to the death,” he wrote the day after Pearl Harbor. “Hitler's fate was Sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.”%8 Or

he phone call on a Thursday, late in the afternoon, and within a few hours he was on a plane. It was an unusual request from the White House and from the State Department - and though he was a man who had lived a life of many unusual requests, he knew that this one had a certain significance, a weight you might say, if