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...With Germany we step many degrees downward and reach the lowest possible depths," said Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines and successor to Belgium's late great Cardinal Mercier, in a speech at Wavre-Notre Dame. "We have a duty of conscience to combat and to strive for the defeat of these dangers. . . . Reason and good sense both direct us towards confidence, towards resistance...
...first day of the battle, he sent a young lieutenant and a motorized cavalry patrol on a 200-mile run around his left end to see what they could find. One of his motorcycle men turned up next day with just what the boss wanted-the Reds' combat plans. The patrol had raided a motor park far in the rear, swiped a batch of marked maps and combat orders and made off with them...
Failing to convince anybody that he was just what Britain needed (at that time the Neutrality Act was enforced), he was sent back to the U.S. He tried again in July, and this time succeeded in getting to Britain. He was hustled straight into combat training and then to the operative Eagle Squadron...
...comments on communism and socialism are perhaps the poorest section of the volume; the discussion of purely literary topics is the best. Allston's (alias Brooks) belief that fascism is scarcely an important topic in surveying the American mind and that a sort of Arthurian joy of combat is much stronger than economic determinism in directing human activities seems somewhat dated at this time. In the literary sections Brooks preaches, as he has already done in several previous volumes that, "Literature has been out on a branch. We must return to the trunk." By which he means that modern writers...
...seems to us that since the prehistoric days when some insignificant mastodon up and slew in combat the mighty tyrannosaurus rex, the favorite has taken a licking. Look at Goliath, for example. All we know about him is that he was "of great size" and a "champion of the Philistines." Obviously he was a good man, if a bit unpopular withal. And then up steps, that little upstart of a David and overthrows him by means that even a Yaleman wouldn't sink to. Goliath is undoubtedly one of the most abused characters in history, just because his enemies happened...