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...Weapon's Men. Four years ago Doenitz wrote of his crews: "With men who have been tried in long U-boat service you can get the devil himself out of hell. They are soldiers and sailors of the best kind...
Capricornia begins at the end of the 19th Century, when the Northwest's population was mostly crocodiles, devil crabs, creak-winged jabirus and colored aborigines. Pioneers from South Australia pushed up into a half million square miles drenched to swamp by the wet season, parched to desert by the dry. They were there to stay. When the defeated Larrapunas persisted in guerrilla tactics, the settlers gave them gifts of flour spiced with arsenic...
...years in which he was traversing this immense ideological area." Sheean once heard Churchill shock the Duke of Windsor by urging a British alliance with Russia. The "self-willed, pleasure-loving little Prince" said: "You of all people, Winston!" Winston replied: "Sir, I would make a friend of the devil himself, if it would save England...
...solid, crashing exception has been Union Pacific's bald, blunt, bull-built William M. Jeffers. As rubber czar, he memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
...enormous help in the devil's sleight of hand is the present vogue of The Historical Point of View. "The Enemy loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions...