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...Britain and France almost came to blows over possession of Fashoda, key to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Kitchener of Khartoum won the day for England...
...talk among Navy men, no longer preoccupied with rosy dreams of inherent Anglo-Saxon superiority, was that the war in the Pacific would be fought to a finish much faster than anyone had thought possible a year...
Persistent Spain. Long-drawn, indecisive talks with slippery little Caudillo Francisco Franco made no visible progress despite recent misinformation to the contrary. Already cut off from U.S. oil, Spain seized Anglo-U.S. oil stocks in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco, on the pretext that Spanish taxes had not been paid. The U.S. and Britain protested, but Spanish tungsten continued to flow into Germany for high-speed tools and armor-piercing shells...
Planned Democracy. "Some critics may feel that it is inconsistent if we should strive to democratize our politics and at the same time introduce planned economy. Such an argument is not entirely groundless. . . . But our democracy will not be an exact reproduction of Anglo-Saxon types. . . . Similarly ... we may take only what is suitable from the Soviet system...
...everything here dissolves a little. But I do know that the tremendous energy which contact with life had given me, the belief that there were many things which could be created or improved, the faith in people's good intentions toward making a better world which the Anglo-Saxons had communicated to me have wasted away, dissolved, day by day disappeared after contact with everything here: the people, the way of life, the climate, the food, the skepticism, the sun, the mountains. Nobody believes in anything. The crafty huaso [the Chilean cowboy] who distrusts everything and everybody is today...