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Judge Hamilton: "If we cling to the doctrine of states' rights in the matter of commerce as it existed in the early days of the republic, a palsied hand holds the power, and decay will set in in our nation before its time...
...nation will never fall beneath the conquering tread of an invader. It will never be lured to chaos and destruction by the red flag of Communism. If this Government is destined to follow the course of human history and, in the fullness of time, to fall into ruin and decay, it will perish as the result of official dishonesty and corruption within the State and nation...
...Robert I. Wilson of Kansas City: The Administration's seeming intent to act on the principle that all successful business is crooked, we object to. . . . Your administration has . . . contributed to the decay of self-reliance and self-respect. . . . It has undermined confidence with its failure to keep a single campaign promise...
...addition to the sexual trophies of Ethiopian warriors who had castrated their enemy, lepers in advanced stages of physical decay were depicted mingling with the populace of Ethiopian towns. Snapped in Ethiopian jails were prisoners chained amid human excrement. Among printable pictures in the white book, one shows a normal Ethiopian flogging, administered daily to culprits throughout the Empire...
...most extraordinary quality of Seven Pillars of Wisdom is that, almost alone among modern War books, it invests warfare with a degree of glamour and heroism. Nor is this quality purchased by avoiding the gruesome butcheries, stench, gore and decay characteristic of battlefields. The glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly...