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A decade younger than King and substantially more aggressive, he regularly dismissed the advice of bigwigs like King and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall, pursuing a course far more radical than theirs in the deep South.
"Well, I think it is.
The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren't say so.
It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, it won't be your skirmishing at Durrenstein, or gunpowder at all, that will decide the matter, but those who devised it," said Bilibin quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and pausing.
"The only question is what will come of the meeting between the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia joins the Allies, Austria's hand will be forced and there will be war.
If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.
" on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event.
In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as though all were in a conspiracy of silence.
The men who set the tone in conversation-Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski-did not show themselves at the club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the Moscovites who took their opinions from others-Ilya Rostov among them-remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject of the war and without leaders.
The Moscovites felt that something was wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best to be silent.
But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, the bigwigs who guided the club's opinion reappeared, and everybody began speaking clearly and definitely.
Reasons were found for the incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things began to be said.
These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people.
But the army, the Russian army, everyone declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor.
The soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes.
But the hero of heroes was Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twic
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