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World War II

Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Death Covid-19 has left the same proportion of the population dead — about 0.3% — as did World War II, and in less time. … One study, published in the scientific journal PLOS One last September estimates that roughly 7.4 million years of life were lost in the U.S. in 2020 alone, with 73% of them attributable directly to Covid-19. … There are fears these losses will be forgotten on a broad scale, beyond those directly affected. Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you. You jim crowed me Before hitler rose to power — And you're STILL jim crowing me Right now, this very hour. You say we're fighting For democracy. Then why don't democracy Include me? from “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943” by Langston Hughes, addressing America during World War II © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom Looks like by now Folks ought to know It's hard to beat Hitler Protecting Jim Crow. Freedom's not just To be won Over There. It means Freedom at home, too — Now — right here! from “How About It, Dixie” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Multinational corporations An international business operating throughout the world should conduct its operations in strictly business terms, without regard to the political beliefs of its management, or the political beliefs of the countries in which it is operating. Alfred P. Sloan, Chairman of the Board from 1937 to 1956 of the General Motors Corporation, whose German operations manufactured armaments for Hitler during World War II © 2020 Kwiple.com
Nukes The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work? Harry Truman, to whom it fell to use the “gadget”, is the more dramatic figure, precisely because he made what might be the most history-altering executive decision since Pontius Pilate  without much in the way of outward qualms. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, July 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Power It was only after the major effort of the Second World War, when we found ourselves not presiding over a pacified and docile world, but engaged in a costly and indecisive struggle in Korea, that the American people first experienced the full reality of what all other great nations have known — the situation of limited power. Richard Hofstadter, “Goldwater and Pseudo-Conservative Politics” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I was in World War II and I didn’t see you there. Mel Brooks responding to an audience member at a preview of "The Producers," which shows Hitler sauntering and singing and dancing, who kept storming up the aisle and yelling, “How dare you have Hitler, how dare you have the swastika? I was in World War II risking my life and you do this on a stage?” [In the war, Brooks was a combat engineer whose job was to defuse land mines and clear boobytraps from buildings]  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Segregation Pearl Harbor put Jim Crow on the run. That Crow can't fly for Democracy And be the same old Crow he used to be — Although right now, even yet today, He still tries to act in the same old way. But India and China and Harlem, too, Have made up their minds Jim Crow is through. from “Jim Crow's Last Stand” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
World War II But if you had the bombsight, you could drop your bomb from way up high — outside the range of antiaircraft guns. We can drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from thirty thousand feet. … High altitude. Daylight. Precision bombing. That was what the Bomber Mafia cooked up in its hideaway in central Alabama.  Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia  © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
World War II You jim crowed me Before hitler rose to power — And you're STILL jim crowing me Right now this very hour Yet you say we're fighting For democracy. Then why don't democracy Include me? I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW. from “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com