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...seaman, boatswain, quartermaster, became a U.S. citizen and got his second mate's papers in 1918. Within two years he had the only U.S. master's certificate ever issued a Negro, a double-riveted whole-hog "any ocean, any tonnage" ticket. Still going up, he got a command: the British registry Yarmouth in the West Indies-Central America trade. Not much of a ship, perhaps, but a step in the right direction. Then the company went out of business and Mulzac returned to New York to look for another berth. That was 20 years ago. Since then...
...post-war hopes of many races and colors were involved. Winston Churchill had traveled far to dramatic meetings with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. He had closeted himself with high U.S. officers. But he had shown no disposition to draw Russian and Chinese officers into a unified command. While his Government censors kept news of Indian rioting from the British public, he could still talk about India with the imperialist arrogance of 1931, when he said: "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal...
...riding through the streets in a dilapidated gazik [old make, small Soviet car] to a command point. We pass a gate through which roll squeaking wagons loaded with fresh bread. Evidently the building housed a bakery. The city is still alive...
...completely different cast of mind, a thing difficult for us to grasp. No enemy can postpone decisions like the Russians, and none can equal them in keeping the scales balanced by throwing in ever-fresh masses. Masses present a difficult problem both to the German High Command and to the German Army, which has to deal with them. On the other hand, the Soviet command lacks tactical consciousness and the feeling of responsibility...
...German command and Army were sorely tried by the Russians' unexpected and seemingly improbable tactics, especially at the beginning of the campaign. The Soviet soldier is far more strongly attached than any other soldier to the system in which he finds himself. The authority of the Soviet leadership is limitless. But the system which holds them together is not unshakable. Every defeat suffered by the Russians proves this anew...