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Anne O'Hare McCormick
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“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”
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“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.”
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“... the percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence.”
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“The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.”
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“[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.”
Anne O'Hare McCormick, English-born U.S. journalist, foreign correspondent
(1880 - 1954)
Full name: Anne Elizabeth O’Hare McCormick.