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"God is not only with the stronger battalions. He is also with those of better nerves. We have had better nerves and will keep them! . . ."
So last week editorialized Das Schwarze Korps, the newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's special "Elite Guard."
It was nerve against nerve this week. The stakes, piled mountains high, amounted to nearly everything Europe values in this world. The grimly staking chiefs of the Great Powers passed from words of War and Peace to final drastic acts involving the lives of millions. With men saying good-by at...
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