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Certain points of great importance have already emerged. Thus we have accepted the name "United Nations." This is a new conception much in advance of the old concept of the League of Nations...
...years ago Bernanos might have been dismissed as a modern Don Quixote. The dismissal is no longer possible. Even North Americans, to whom his seignorial temper may at first seem foreign, can recognize in his concept of "honor" a virtue familiar to them1 in their own great men and called by them "responsibility." (He reminds Americans, too, that while their arsenal of Democracy helped to save England, the heroic example of England saved American democracy from committing its own stupendous Munich...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square and would be especially folish now. Neither Faculty nor undergraduates have ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...
...keep Africa, the United Nations have more than Rommel and Madagascar to consider. Once the vast Sahara was considered a sufficient barrier to guard the heart of Africa from invasion by forces using Vichy-controlled Tunisia and Algeria as a jumping-off point. Mechanized warfare changed that concept. If the Germans conquer Egypt, they may turn south. French North Africa and Dakar, the continent's westernmost base, in the hands of Axis-enslaved Vichy can never be anything but a danger to the security of Africa as a great crossroads of the United Nations...
Said Statesman Stimson: "The Army has no place in its organization for promoters of news. My own concept is based on an old Bible text from I Kings 20, 11: 'Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...