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An article titled "The Difficult Profession of Francophile" said that, in contrast to other countries, France "starts from the principle that 'francophilia is a natural and normal thing for other peoples' " It asked, "Are we not the fatherland of the rights of man?
(`Hurrah for the fatherland'?)
But were it not for the 1920s, and for the historical value of the Nazi and East German documents, this collection might rival Ruritarian Photographs of a Century , with its obligatory nods to every passing wrinkle of fashion devised elsewhere, its dull portraits of statesmen unknown outside the fatherland, its honorable but unexceptional petits maîtres . This, from a nation which invented the Leica, comes as something of a surprise.
In a school essay, Stauffenberg wrote of Speer-like architectural ambitions: "Every building will, so to speak, represent a temple dedicated to the German nation and fatherland."
Yeltsin, says the paper, met with Chernomyrdin in person and gave him a farewell award for "Services to the Fatherland," while the other big names got it in the neck on the phone.
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