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...Unit consists of about 80 men, including several Americans. Thirteen additional Americans are now ready to join those already at work in China. The project is an expression of Anglo-American good will and demonstrates the daring and courage of pacifists who are ready to make any personal sacrifice in service for fellow human beings...
...most serious result was a minuscule opposition bloc which Makram set up within the Wafd Party. Nahas was still sitting on the lid, unshaken, still carrying out a policy of 1) maintaining the integrity and independence of Egypt and 2) sticking to the letter and spirit of the cordial Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. Last week, Nahas Pasha's Egypt maintained a sphinxlike calm...
...peep-peep horns, bobbed from one brassy note to another, burping warnings. The German Elite Guards with "new arms" had marched through Paris in "a westerly direction." An invasion of Europe was "bound to have disastrous results for the U.S. and England. It threatens dire calamity to the Anglo-American conduct of the war." In Vichyfrance, Pierre Laval chimed in, proclaimed to Frenchmen that any aid to invaders would be drastically dealt with...
Ever since the first alien Bowen muscled his way with Cromwell into County Cork, ten generations of Bowen gentry have had a mania for land. For without land the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry had nothing. In Catholic Ireland, they were spiritual aliens, "people of the ruins...
...Bowens were immured by the "affair of origin"-by their separateness from the native Catholic Irish who islanded their existence. Outside Bowen's Court rolled the violent bloody history of Ireland. The Bowens looked the other way. "The structure of the great Anglo-Irish society was raised over a country in martyrdom. To enjoy prosperity" (and enjoy it most of the Bowens did) "one had to exclude feeling, or keep it within the prescribed bounds...