Note: This is a crosspost from my personal blog.
The following are a few quotes that stood out to me in Chapter Four of The Rainbow.
Read More »Yes, to see the last German on the gallows, to see them working until they dropped.
But what good would that do her? Others might be satisfied, but her heart would never know peace. No amount of blood, no length of time, no revenge could wash away her memories. They would remain festering at her heart forever.
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By way of a detour into personal details, it is worth mentioning that [Joseph] Davies’s second wife (from 1935 to 1955, i.e. in part during his tenure in Moscow) was Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887 1973), the wealthiest (and perhaps most attractive) heiress in all of the United States, proprietress of the Postum cereal firm and founder of General Foods, Inc. The couple spent some of their vacation time at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Post’s soon famous summer residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The mansion, then comprising no fewer than 126 rooms, was later acquired by a multi-billionaire named Donald Trump, in 1985. It still has 118 rooms.
Tibor Frank, The Blind Eyewitness: Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1936–1938), Transatlantic Elective Affinities: Traveling Ideas and Their Mediators
Related:
2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy
It follows that, although we are and will remain engaged in Europe, we must—and will—prioritize defending the U.S. Homeland and deterring China.
Related papers from the Marathon Initiative:
Bridge Colby / DTRA – Sharing the Load: Developing Better Strategies for Burden Sharing
Robert Almelor Delfeld / Elbridge Colby: Broadening the Base: A Blueprint for Expanding Defense Industrial Capacity
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 