The generals, like Hitler, wanted Germany to aggrandize at the expense of neighboring countries, and to do so if necessary by force or threat of force.

We have since / learned to scoff at all such drollery, at the stalls / rife with the junk of old piosity

And then some salad dodger on the construction crew stuck his gut in the way trying to make peace.

That he conscioned when he deeded the lands known as the Camp Ground Tract to the Trustees it was for the use, benefit and behoof of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and these trustees were controlled in their management […]