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...fighting men have strong feelings about strikes. "They ask you to explain. They say, 'Why is this? We don't understand. We need this stuff to fight with, to defend our lives with.' I don't think I saw a boy who justified any strike,, but their approach was always reasonable. They are the most reasonable people I have ever...
Into his 14,000-word 125-minute speech Churchill crammed the treasure of facts saved up during his six weeks overseas. Into it he packed drama, the finely chiseled word, the sense and feel of history which are his. He had not come to apologize or to defend himself. Rather, he had come in triumph: "I cannot recollect," said he, "anything so complete and prolonged as the series of victories which have attended our Allied arms in almost every theater." He proclaimed progress in Anglo-American relations with Russia (see p. 38), but his speech was largely a report...
Just how, or whether, the Germans now proposed to defend Naples remained to be seen. Certainly the time was near when they would have to retire northward and choose some other point for their next delaying action on the road to Rome...
...press, which has usually rushed to defend the craft against the President, was this time slow to react. Lean, acidulous Drew Pearson, the capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before...
Past Error. Before 1941 Boris had said: "My ministers are pro-German, my wife is pro-Italian, my people are pro-Russian-I am the only neutral in the country." The decision to discard his neutrality, rather than defend it against Nazi infiltration, was his prime mistake...