Ike looks like the All-American boy. Hitler and Stalin are snot nosed troublemakers. Hirohito seems very distant. Getulio was twice President of Brazil and he was in charge of Brazil during World War II. Mussolini appears to be practicing his future disdainful strong man pose. De Gaulle’s big ears are already evident. Churchill is the young English bulldog. Roosevelt’s father was in ill health, an invalid, he was 51 when Franklin was born, and Franklin was fiercely protective of him, which is reflected in his already care worn face.
The Child is Father to the Man
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I still recall vividly the scene in the Boys From Brazil where Olivier, as the Nazi hunter, rings the doorbell of a mansion and is told “We are not at home” by…a snot-nosed troublemaker, who looked a lot like that photo in the post.
Mussolini looks just like Mussolini.