Romney

[Adele Edisen]

From the book THE AXIS GRAND STRATEGY: Blueprints for the Total War, compiled and edited by Ladislas Farago, 1942, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, NY, and Toronto, Canada.
(Ladislas Farago (1906-1980) was a military historian and journalist, born in Hungary and came to Canada and the US. He is the author of over a dozen books, notably
THE GAME OF THE FOXES - about Nazi spies in US before WWII; PATTON: ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH - basis for movie on General Patton; AFTERMATH: THE SEARCH FOR MARTIN BORMAN - Nazi tracked..


BEAUTY OF WAR

By Fillippo Tommaso Marinetti
1937

War is Beauty because it realizes the mechanical man
Perfect with the gas mask
the terrifying megaphone
the flame thrower
or enclosed in the armoured car
which establishes the domination of man over the machine
War is Beauty
because it commences the metallization of man
of which we used to dream....

The author of this chapter in the book, Psychological Warfare, states, "As a matter of fact, for their total mobilization, the Fascist rulers need men who have ceased to be of flesh and blood."

The poetry and all the arts of Fascism were as devoid of life and truth and beauty as is this poem.

Adele