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...Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific, and "Great Britain of course" in the Atlantic. He would protect the Suez lifeline with troops, if necessary. He would allow the Army "occasional extensions . . . into Europe, Asia and Africa," but "I do not believe that in time of peace we should commit American troops to continental soil...
...polarized world scared Adams less than an atomized one. As early as 1862 he wrote: "Man has mounted science, and is now run away with . . . Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world." By 1901, he was saying: "After us the deluge-or even before!" In February of 1918, he was 80 years old and very tired of "a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . ." One month later, he left...
...American man has high standards for everything but marriage. As long as his wife doesn't run off with another man, commit suicide, develop acute dementia praecox, or stab him with the carving knife, he considers his marriage reasonably successful. . . [The American woman] is frustrated, unfulfilled, humiliated, and bored by the routine existence that passes for family life in her native land. If Groggle doesn't change, she can only hope to get worse...
...Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist "means justifies the end" philosophy meant certain death. His final hours are occupied by a challenge--he must decide between a silent, unobserved death, which would follow a confession for many crimes he did not commit, or death after a trial where he could speak out heroically against the new Bolshevism. He chose the former. Thus, Rubashov's death was a great tragedy, since it resulted from moral and intellectual capitulation...
Although Mrs. Bridges drowned, police think it unlikely that it was accidental, as she was an excellent swimmer. Her family testified that she had no reason they knew of to commit suicide...