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None could deny that the best time to strike, if possible, was while Hitler's mightiest armies were still tangled with Russia in the east. It is an opportunity, said one correspondent, "that may not recur;" and if not acted upon, "would cause a reaction fatal to Anglo-Soviet relations. It would be vain to attempt to conceal that there is now a very considerable popular impatience-and public opinion has become a powerful force in the Soviet Union...
...many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like Flaubert's ideal book about nothing . . . sustains itself on itself by the inner force...
...Philippines the Japs burned to the ground the national library at Manila, ordered expunged from all textbooks any mention of the U.S., Great Britain, democracy or Anglo-Saxon culture. Eight Filipinos were executed for printing and distributing anti-Japanese pamphlets...
...well-intentioned Nervous Nellies of both countries stop this constant digging up the roots of Anglo-British friendship? . . . Americans are pro-British for the best reason in the world, because we must hang together or hang separately...
...Anglo-Soviet and the Soviet-American communiqués declare that 'complete understanding was reached with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942.' This statement is of great importance to the Soviet Union, since the creation of a second front in Europe will create insuperable difficulties for Hitler on our front...